{"id":2378189,"date":"2026-04-17T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2378189"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:00:20","slug":"illinois-home-visited-by-george-harrison-now-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/illinois-home-visited-by-george-harrison-now-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Home Visited By George Harrison Now For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" style=\"display:contents\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"2479\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;isLiveblogEmbed&quot;:false,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPDAafJku98?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\\&quot; style=\\&quot;top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\\&quot; allowfullscreen scrolling=\\&quot;no\\&quot; allow=\\&quot;accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\\&quot; referrerpolicy=\\&quot;strict-origin\\&quot; id=\\&quot;youtube-embed-JPDAafJku98-876\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:{&quot;author&quot;:&quot;The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4sEmXUuWIFlxRIFBRV6VXQ&quot;,&quot;cache_age&quot;:86400,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;A little known 1963 event rocked southern Illinois.  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sister\u2019s family in September 1963\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e24cd3e4b0555d213b2085\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-arts-and-entertainment-music-ce3e33c6ac7f488ab9f4ae653a4af1c9\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">visit his sister\u2019s family in September 1963<\/a> in Benton, Illinois.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He went camping. He jammed with local musicians. He drank root beer delivered on roller skates. He shopped for records. He bought a guitar. Then he went home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The next time people in Benton saw George Harrison, it was with 73 million others who tuned in to watch his band, the Beatles, make their U.S. debut on \u201cThe Ed Sullivan Show\u201d about four months later. The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/40e58df5d0e64e7cb527df5fa9301241\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"British Invasion\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e24cd3e4b0555d213b2085\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/40e58df5d0e64e7cb527df5fa9301241\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">British Invasion<\/a>, which changed popular music and American culture, was underway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Now, the house where Harrison and his brother Peter stayed in Benton, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of St. Louis, is for sale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>You\u2019ll forgive Beatles fans if they\u2019re worried about its future. In 1995, the house at 113 McCann Street had a date with the wrecking ball. Activists, including Harrison\u2019s sister, Louise Harrison Caldwell, who had moved away in the late 1960s, stepped in to save it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2>Coal mining brought the family of Harrison\u2019s sister to Benton<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Previously known for hosting the state\u2019s last public hanging in 1928, Benton, population 6,700, was built on Southern Illinois\u2019 rich veins of coal. Louise Caldwell moved to town when her husband, a mining engineer, got a job in what was then a thriving industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The house they chose is a five-bedroom bungalow built in 1935 with a brick facade across its wide front porch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>In the mid-1990s, a state agency bought the house from a subsequent owner with plans to flatten it for parking. Mega-fan Robert Bartel of Springfield, a Beatles author and documentarian, alerted the media and Fab Four loyalists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Local investors repurchased it from the state and opened the Hard Day\u2019s Nite Bed and Breakfast, featuring the couch Harrison traded guitar licks on and stacks of other loaned Beatles memorabilia, including a bevy from Bartel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The bed-and-breakfast closed in 2010. Benton resident Grady Adams has since operated it as regular bed-and-bath apartments but now wants to sell, listing it for $105,000. Brian Calcaterra, Benton\u2019s director of economic development, suggested the city draft an ordinance to protect the house from demolition by a new owner, but Benton Mayor Lee Messersmith said the city council has not discussed the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cOf course, if it doesn\u2019t get demo\u2019d, I would prefer that,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2>Interest in reviving the bed-and-breakfast is unclear<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Whether there\u2019s interest \u2014 or energy \u2014 to return the McCann Street house to its Beatles glory is up for debate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Jim Kirkpatrick of Creal Springs, author of \u201cBefore He Was Fab,\u201d a recollection of Harrison\u2019s visit which has been optioned for a movie, has had at least one encouraging conversation with someone considering purchase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Benton business owner Robert Rea, a historian who helped save the Beatles house three decades ago, said the obsession has faded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cWhen we did this (in 1995), the world went crazy because they thought, \u2018George is going to come, he\u2019s going to save the house,\u2019\u201d Rea said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m just being honest with you, maybe I\u2019m missing it or something, but that momentum is not here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2>Harrison\u2019s last chance to walk the streets in anonymity<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Harrison\u2019s trip was perhaps the last time the musician could enjoy obscurity. He camped in Shawnee National Forest. He sat in with a popular local group when they played a nearby Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. The band\u2019s leader took him to a drive-in restaurant with carhops on skates, where he guzzled root beer for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>At a record store on Benton\u2019s downtown square, Harrison bought a pile of vinyl. Included was James Ray\u2019s R&amp;B single, \u201cI\u2019ve Got My Mind Set on You,\u201d Harrison\u2019s 1987 cover of which went to No. 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He also bought a Rickenbacker 425 guitar like the one bandmate John Lennon had. Harrison played the guitar a month later when the Beatles recorded \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand.\u201d It <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/99471841a16b47269b3d09ff072fb136\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"sold at auction\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e24cd3e4b0555d213b2085\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/99471841a16b47269b3d09ff072fb136\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">sold at auction<\/a> in 2014 for $675,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>One day during Harrison\u2019s visit, he and Caldwell dropped by WFRX radio, where then-17-year-old Marcia Schafer Raubach had a Saturday afternoon teen program. Harrison gave her a copy of \u201cShe Loves You,\u201d which he told her had just hit the top of the British charts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Raubach interviewed Harrison on the air, the first for a Beatle in America, and played the 45, which she still has. She said it sounded different than the songs American teens were then punching up on jukeboxes. But it didn\u2019t make an impression on her audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Despite his longish hair in a land of crew cuts, Raubach found Harrison, dressed in a crisp white shirt, jeans and sandals, \u201cvery clean cut, he was personable and mannerly and they call him the \u2018quiet Beatle\u2019 \u2014 well, he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cIf I had known what they were going to become, I would have handled that differently,\u201d Raubach, now 79, said. \u201cIt\u2019s still amazing that he even came here and that I met him. I think he really liked Southern Illinois.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Harrison never returned to Benton, though, dying in 2001 at 58. Caldwell was 91 when she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/02\/02\/former-tri-state-resident-and-beatles-sister-louise-harrison-dies\/69866450007\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"died in 2023\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e24cd3e4b0555d213b2085\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/02\/02\/former-tri-state-resident-and-beatles-sister-louise-harrison-dies\/69866450007\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">died in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e2501618000059205b2c52.jpg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp 1x, https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e2501618000059205b2c52.jpg?ops=scalefit_1440&amp;format=webp 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"This photo provided by Grady Adams shows the house at 113 McCann Street in Benton, Illinois, where a then-unknown George Harrison stayed while visiting his sister in September 1963, months before the Beatles debuted in the U.S., which is now for sale and some Beatles fans fear it will be razed. 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