The building lost in a fire Jan. 24, 2025, was an original home, tavern and hall building erected by Menchalville's namesake.

For more than a century, Annie May Swift Hall, a building with Venetian Gothic revival and Romanesque architecture, round-arched entrances, a red tile roof and Lemont limestone foundation, has been ...

Around 1895, they moved to the present Menchalville ... In March 1946, it was reported that William Kvitek sold the “old saloon, dance hall and store of Menchalville … to Charles Biely and ...