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Pere Marquette State Park was not acquired until May 1932. Known then as Piasa Bluff State Park, the 1,511-acre (611 ha) park was the largest in Illinois at the time. In 1933 the state park system's development picked up. Under the governorship of Henry Horner the lodge projects at the state parks began.
Illinois Building, Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield; Illinois National Guard Building, Cairo, 1932; Illinois National Guard Building, Pontiac, 1939; Independent Order of Odd Fellows Meeting Hall, Centralia Commercial Historic District, Centralia, 1932; Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois Institute of Technology, Bedford Park ...
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The project at White Pines was originally meant to be the construction of a lodge building. Two hundred men worked on the State Park construction project at one time, in the years 1933-1939, many of them World War I veterans. [4] After the lodge was completed, it was decided to build a restaurant and breezeway onto the lodge building. [4]
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois, becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas. [1]
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Wolf Lake in Illinois has a storied history that somehow has lost track of the origins of the name that goes back over 150 years. Part of this history includes visits by Abraham Lincoln in which Mary Todd Lincoln nearly drowned. [3] In 1947, the state acquired a 160 acres (65 ha) parcel known as the Wolf Lake State Recreation Area.