Purchasing a Belleville Historical Society calendar is a fun way to discover moments in Belleville’s history — and your purchase helps us continue to find, share and preserve the stories.
2024 Calendar: Painting Historic Belleville III
2024 Calendars are now available! Each month features a painting from our annual “Paint Historic Belleville” Art Auction, for which some of the region’s most renowned plein air artists donate an original painting of a historic Belleville location. Each month also includes a history of the featured site written by our historian, Bob Brunkow.
The 2024 calendar is $10. You can purchase it at one of these local Belleville businesses:
- Circa Boutique – 128 East Main Street, Belleville
- Eckert’s Country Store – 951 South Green Mount Road
- Eckert Florist – 201 W Main Street, Belleville
- Local Lucy’s – 310 East Main Street
- Peace by Piece Boutique and Muttley & Me – 2427 North Illinois Street (Route 159), Swansea
Or purchase online via Paypal:
A $2 postage fee will be charged.
Thank you for helping us share and preserve Belleville’s history!
Past Calendars
Past calendars are available for purchase from the Belleville Historical Society for $10 each. Please email us if you would like to order a keepsake calendar from a past year: bellevillehistoricalsociety@gmail.com
Read the Belleville News-Democrat article about our 2021 calendar »
Our 2016 theme was so popular that we brought it back for another round! Saloons dotted the Belleville landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The 2017 calendar features vintage photographs and brief histories of twelve more Historic Belleville Saloons.
We went back to our roots … The Belleville Historical Society’s 2016 calendar features vintage photographs and brief histories of a once common institution in Belleville.
The 2015 calendar featured photos and capsule histories of 13 of Belleville’s historic churches: St Peter Cathedral, St Paul United Church of Christ, St. Henry Catholic Church, Christ United Church of Christ, First Baptist Church, Zion Lutheran, Jackson Street Methodist, United Methodist Church, St. Luke Catholic Church, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, St. Teresa Catholic Church, First Presbyterian and St. George Episcopal.
For Belleville’s bicentennial year, each month showcased a significant “first” in Belleville’s heritage and history, including the first railroad, the first skyscraper, and the first mayor. This photo shows a scene from Belleville’s first street fair.
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