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The photograph is from the St. Charles Heritage Center (www.stcmuseum.org). The links above go to all the information we have at the Library. You might want to contact the Heritage Center to see what more they have. If you learn about any other digital images, please let us know! - mandy

Wow - thanks for the comment! Unfortunately I don't have more information about the house, although I added a few links to some descriptions of Ira Minard and Stevens S. Jones.
I also checked with the St. Charles Heritage Center and they passed this along, "We do not have any lore about ghosts at the site. The only house we are familiar, with respect to possible hauntings, is our own Dunham-Hunt House. This type of occurrence does not surprise me though, as with older homes people lived and died there. This was a period in St. Charles history where there were no hospitals for the sick so they were treated at home and most of the time funerals for the deceased were held in the family home."
I invite you to come to the Library where we can help you learn how to research a building - perhaps you will be the one to uncover the reasons behind the strange occurrences at your workplace!

Here's an interesting article from an old issue of Time Magazine about Baker that you can read online http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,938014,00.html