CIPS, Springfield, IL
Terrazzo entrance to the Illinois Building, 607 East Adams Street, Springfield, Illinois. CIPS stands for "Central Illinois Public Service", a local energy utility. Built in 1927-1931, this Art Deco building was designed by Law, Law, and Potter to serve as the home of the Central Illinois Public Service Company. The 15-story building was then the largest commercial office building in Illinois outside of Chicago, and stands 201 feet tall. The building features a limestone-clad exterior with decorative green spandrel panels between most windows on the upper floors, decorative carved sculptural reliefs, a setback upper section of the tower, multiple first floor retail shopfronts, and a main entrance on Adams Street with a decorative Art Deco transom, pendant-style light fixtures, and green marble serpentinite cladding above the doorway. The building is a contributing structure in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The building today houses multiple office and retail tenants.
CIPS, Springfield, IL
Terrazzo entrance to the Illinois Building, 607 East Adams Street, Springfield, Illinois. CIPS stands for "Central Illinois Public Service", a local energy utility. Built in 1927-1931, this Art Deco building was designed by Law, Law, and Potter to serve as the home of the Central Illinois Public Service Company. The 15-story building was then the largest commercial office building in Illinois outside of Chicago, and stands 201 feet tall. The building features a limestone-clad exterior with decorative green spandrel panels between most windows on the upper floors, decorative carved sculptural reliefs, a setback upper section of the tower, multiple first floor retail shopfronts, and a main entrance on Adams Street with a decorative Art Deco transom, pendant-style light fixtures, and green marble serpentinite cladding above the doorway. The building is a contributing structure in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The building today houses multiple office and retail tenants.