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The district encompasses Springfield's oldest commercial district and is centered on the Old State Capitol. While the area was platted in 1822, only two buildings in the district predate the 1850s: the Old State Capitol and the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices, both built in 1837. The majority of the district's buildings were constructed during ...
426 S 8th St c. 1849 Chatterton Place 123/125 S 5th St 1853 Eclectic Clarkson W. Freeman House: 704 W Monroe St 1878 Italianate, Carpenter-Gothic trim September 29, 1980 Congressman James M.Graham House: 413 S 7th St 1862 Italianate May 1, 1989 Cook House 508 S 8th St c. 1850 Cranmer-Cook House 926 South 7th Street 1877 Italianate Dana-Thomas House
The facility, located in Orange Country, [4] was previously known as Middletown State Hospital for the Insane. [8] [9] The number of buildings and the number of patients grew reaching over 100 buildings and 2,250 people in the early 1900s and 3,686 in the 1960s. [10] In 1970 they had 3,000 patients. [4]
Illinois Museum of Natural History, campus of Illinois State University, Old Main building, from 1857-1877; Korean War National Museum, Sangamon, closed in 2017, collections transferred to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum [82] Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, closed in 2012, collections now at the Peoria Riverfront ...
The Illinois State Museum was founded on May 25, 1877, as a showcase within the sixth Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, which was completed at that time. Amos Henry Worthen was first curator. As the state's government grew, the museum collection was moved from the Capitol Building to the newly constructed Centennial Building, now known as ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
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Federated Department Stores, now known as Macy's, Inc., founded the MainStreet chain in 1983 with seven stores in the Chicago, Illinois area. The store was a middle-market chain focused primarily on softlines, similar to Kohl's and Mervyn's. MainStreet stores often featured a "racetrack" layout like a discounter, but checkouts were distributed ...