Adams County ILGenWeb Project

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The postcard shows Washington Square (Park) on left and corner of 5th and Maine on the right. The building and much of the block was developed by Timothy Kelly in the early 1840's. The old (second) Courthouse is still pictured in the center of the block. The block was called the "Kelly Block" and the building on the corner of 5th and Maine the "Kelly Building" for a time and then later was known as the "Dodd building".

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The Quincy Morning Whig; Apr 30th, 1897

Will Give Place to a Fine Business Block

By the tearing down of the Dodd building, on the corner of Maine and Fifth streets, another old landmark will soon be removed, as this building has been a familiar one for nearly sixty years. Phil Bert says it was built in 1840 by Capt. Kelly, a railroad contractor, who had the contract for building the old Central road, the road that was commenced, but never got beyond the grading. He was a king among the contractors at that time, more especially among the Irish, with whom he was a bigger man than anybody. Kelly went off to the Mexican war soon afterwards, and Sinister & Allen had a wholesale grocery store there some time afterwards. Mr. J. T. Baker kept a store there, Brown & Dimock occupied it for many years, and then M. Huffman removed his jewelry store to that corner. After the new courthouse block was built W. H. Konantz occupied it as a harness manufactory. Now it will soon be leveled to the ground, and one of the handsomest buildings in the city will be erected on the site.

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