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Potter House (Rock Island, Illinois)
Potter House is an historic building located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. It was designated a Rock Island Landmark in 1987, listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and became a part of the Broadway Historic District on the national register in 1998.
==Minnie Potter==
The home was built by Minnie Potter who was the president of J.W. Potter Company, which owned the ''Rock Island Argus'' newspaper. Her husband had bought the newspaper in 1882 when it had only 500 subscribers. He died at the age of 36 in 1898. Minnie was 32 at the time, and a mother of three young children. She took over the leadership of the paper and raised her family. She never remarried. The ''Argus'' prospered under her leadership and she directed the construction of a new newspaper plant on Fourth Avenue in 1925.〔 Mrs. Potter had the home built in 1907 and lived there until her death, and the home remained in the family until 1983. The Potter family sold the newspaper in 1985.
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