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The Hegeler Carus Mansion, located at 1307 Seventh Street in La Salle, Illinois is one of the Midwest's great Second Empire structures. Completed in 1876 for Edward C. Hegeler, a partner in the nearby Matthiessen Hegeler Zinc Company, the mansion was designed in 1874 by noted Chicago architect William W. Boyington.
Chicago’s Driehaus Foundation approved Monday evening $1 million in funding for a Landmarks Illinois program that revives historic buildings on the city’s South and West sides. The move will ...
The City of Peoria's Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) approves new historic districts and landmarks and ensures historic site maintain their character. [1] Peoria's Historic Preservation Ordinance was adopted by the City Council in 1976 and amended in 1989. [1] The Historic Preservation Commission was authorized by Section 16-36. [1]
The State of Illinois acquired the ruins in 1913 as a historic site and restored the powder magazine in 1917. The powder magazine is thought to be the oldest existing building in the state of Illinois. In the 1920s the foundations of the fort's buildings and walls were exposed.
The village was concerned about maintenance costs and initially would not accept the property. A non-profit organization called the David Adler Memorial Park Association formed in 1951 to rehabilitate the property. By 1956, when Elkins died, the organization had done so well to improve the property's value that the village purchased the house.
This is a list of properties and districts in Illinois that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 1,900 in total. There are over 1,900 in total. Of these, 85 are National Historic Landmarks .
This list of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, has 89 entries including Eads Bridge, which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list. Also added are two sites that were once National Historic Landmarks before having their designations removed.
The location and course of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. The Illinois and Michigan Canal, begun in 1836 and finished in 1848, and spanning 96 miles (154 km), was the last link in a waterway connecting the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico via the Port of New Orleans and the Atlantic Ocean via the Port of New York.