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Gifford was laid out in 1876 and named for Benjamin F. Gifford. [4] [5] Along with nearby Penfield, the town had a station on the now-defunct Illinois Central Railroad. [6]On August 9, 1894, a fire originating from the barbershop and billiard hall engulfed the entirety of the business district as well as the grain elevator, destroying both completely.
Other notable buildings include the Ballinger Building (1889), Commerce Building (1889, 1941), First National Bank of St. Joseph (1902, 1963), Lehman's, Plymouth Building (1908), and the United Building (1917-1918) by the architecture firm of Eckel & Aldrich. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]
The Village of St. Joseph was founded on April 28, 1881, and is located in St. Joseph Township, Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,810 at the 2020 census, down from 3,967 at the 2010 census.
School, commerce sparked Gifford. By 1953, Gifford’s early 20th-century school on 39th Street east of U.S. 1 was abandoned, replaced by a new one near the center of town on 45th Street — where ...
St. Joseph elevator (Section 14), built on the Big Four—Conrail System railroad, is in the Village of St. Joseph. Operated by the Rising Farmer's Grain Company in 1918. Tipton elevator (Section 26) was built on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois—Union Pacific railroad. Operated by Dryer and Burt Grain and Coal in 1913; Ogden and Burt in 1929.
In the United States, a state bank is a bank in a U.S. state that is chartered by the government of that state, as opposed to a national bank which is chartered at the federal level. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Overview
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The district encompasses six contributing buildings in the central business district of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1859 and the 1860s, and includes representative examples of Renaissance Revival style architecture. The primary building is the Bank of the State of Missouri (1859). [2]