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Article: Historic Lemont mansion provides link to area's past
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
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- July 28, 2004
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The Kettering Mansion near Lemont may hold clues to Lemont's history.
A Homer Glen woman has accidentally discovered a piece of Lemont history while trying to save a historic house from destruction.
Built by John Kettering in the 1850s, the Kettering Mansion, made of limestone mined along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, stands on 132 acres on the border of Lemont Township and Homer Glen, and is now up for sale.
The home was built by John Kettering, the grandson of the first Kettering in the United States, Hans Kettering, who came to America from Germany in 1740, said Denise Rutter, who has been researching the ancestry of former owners of the house.
Hans' three nephews came to America in ...