News From The Manor

Brian A. Reis has joined the Smeja Homestead Foundation as the newly appointed Executive Director, it was announced today.  Reis previously served as Executive Director of the Ellwood House Museum in Dekalb, Illinois for twelve years and before that he was Curator of...

The private foundation that owns the historic Indian Hill Manor and Farm is conducting a survey of historic barns and other farm buildings in the rural area around the old village of Kishwaukee. The area covered by the survey includes parts of southwest Rockford...

Northwest Quarterly Summer-Fall 2017 by Janine Pumilia, Manager Editor Used with permission of Northwest Quarterly Magazine For thousands of years, native people enjoyed the scenic juncture where the Rock and Kishwaukee rivers meet. Step inside the stately manor atop...

The private foundation that owns the historic Indian Hill Manor and Farm on Kishwaukee Road, southwest of Rockford, is conducting a survey of historic barns and other farm buildings in the rural area around the old village of Kishwaukee. The area covered by the survey...