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Motor vehicle assembly plants in Illinois (4 P) Pages in category "Industrial buildings and structures in Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Field Building, also known as the LaSalle National Bank Building and Bank of America Building [1] is an art deco office building at 135 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark February 9, 1934. [2]
The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]
The Ottawa Commercial Historic District is a historic district in downtown Ottawa, Illinois. The district includes 195 buildings and structures, most of them commercial buildings, spread out over 26 city blocks. The oldest buildings in the district, located near the Illinois and Fox rivers, were built in the 1830s.
Historic American Buildings Survey in Illinois (1 C, 5 P) Historic American Engineering Record in Illinois (1 C, 57 P) N.
The oldest building in the district is the Village Market, completed around 1900. It replaced a large, wood-framed building that was destroyed in a fire. Charles Helming ran the store from 1902 to 1947. Frost & Granger designed the Lake Bluff Train Station in 1904 to service the Chicago and North Western. The railway donated funds to construct ...
The historic district reflects the history of Morris, Illinois as a canal town on the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Named after canal commissioner Isaac N. Morris, the town became the Grundy County seat in 1841 and was originally platted a year later. The earliest of the buildings were built in the 1850s, shortly after the canal's construction.
The district also includes one block of Lincoln Avenue on either side of North State Street. Thirty-one buildings and one object contribute to the historical integrity of the district, while nine recent buildings are considered intrusions. The contributing object is a c. 1950 metal plaque commemorating the site of the American House, an 1842 hotel.