Here is the Oltrogge house after updating by Danette and Tim Meyer.

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Magdalene Oltrogge Meyn and a friend stand near the Arlington Heights home that was originally stuccoed and later sided.

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The house her father built looked like this about the time of Magdalene Oltrogge Meyn's death in 2002.

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Central Arlington Heights looked like this is 1925.

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Henry Oltrogge built this home — with help — in 1918.

Joan and Eugene Brandt

This stylish couple, Magdalene Oltrogge and John Meyn, were married in 1925.

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Emilie Oltrogge, whose husband, Henry Oltrogge, built the home on South Mitchell Avenue, grinds horseradish with her daughter-in-law Ann Oltrogge.

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