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Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Springfield, Illinois" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pratt based her blocks on a similar but larger-scale block system designed by educator Patty Hill, a follower of Friedrich Fröbel, the originator of kindergarten education. Fröbel's series of 20 age-calibrated educational "gifts" had included a set of eight blocks, sized ½ by 1 by 2 inches, or a 1:2:4 ratio, which could be formed into a cube ...
Fisher-Latham Building: 111/113/115 North 6th St 1850s 19th Century classically-inspired April 28, 2000 George M. Brinkerhoff House: 1500 N 5th St 1869 Italianate December 18, 1978 Grant Store/Harts’ Block 225 S 5th St 1868 Italianate Harriet Dean House 421 S 8th St 1850s Henson Robinson House 520 S 8th St 1863-1866 Hoogland Center for the Arts
Initially, Horace Mann's bid was for a large, 3-1/2 block project that included a 15 story high office building, as well as additional 4 story office building, apartment buildings, a 12 story hotel, a theater, and retail space. [3] The bid was for $743,682 and would need approval of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. [2]
Springfield School District No. 186, known as Springfield Public Schools (SPS), is a unit school district in Sangamon County, Illinois. Its territory includes most of the city of Springfield, Illinois , its four inner suburbs of Grandview , Leland Grove , Jerome , and Southern View , and some rural areas immediately north of Springfield. [ 2 ]
Called "rational toys", blocks were intended to teach children about gravity and physics, as well as spatial relationships that allow them to see how many different parts become a whole. [3] In 1837 Friedrich Fröbel invented a preschool educational institution Kindergarten. For that, he designed ten Froebel Gifts based on building blocks ...
The Bell Miller Apartments are a historic apartment building located at 835 South Second Street in Springfield, Illinois. The six-flat apartments were built in 1909 by Bell Miller, a local florist branching out into real estate. Architect George H. Helmle designed the three-story Classical Revival building.
The Lego system is the most widely used clamp building block system in the world. Building blocks (also construction blocks) are modular construction parts, usually made of plastic, which can be assembled in a form-fit manner. The basic components are usually cuboid-shaped, cylindrically studded at the top in a grid pattern, hollow-bodied at ...