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Built in 1839 and expanded and renovated in the Italianate style in 1856, this house was the home of Abraham Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, along with their family, starting in 1844. The house was donated by the Lincoln family in 1887 to the State of Illinois to serve as a museum. The house was originally one-and-a-half-stories tall, and remained in its original configuration for most of the time Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln lived in the house during the 1840s and 1850s. The five-bay-wide house features a brick base, a side-gable wooden shingle roof with bracketed eaves, six-over-six double-hung windows with shutters and decorative trim surrounds, a broad hipped rear ell, large corner trim, a rear porch with rectilinear columns and a cast iron railing wrapping around the roof, a wooden and brick fence surrounding the yard, and a large bay in the center of the front facade of the first floor, containing the front entrance door, which is flanked by sidelights. The house is part of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and today is the centerpiece of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, serving as a museum that interprets the circa 1860 appearance of the house, the year Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito join Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno and MGM Springfield officials to celebrate the casino as one of the world’s first integrated gaming resorts to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification in Springfield on April 22, 2021. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Pickleball at Iles Park in Springfield, Illinois, July 10, 2015. Photos by Patrick Yeagle, Illinois Times.
Seven contestants competed in the 2010 Miss Greater Springfield Pageant on February 28, 2010 at Greenspring in Springfield, Virginia.
On the Springfield Road side of Woolworths, above the bins area, is this dark patch of brick with an old fluorescent light fixture jutting out above it. I guess there used to be a sign here sometime in the past.
Built in 1897-1898, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style building was designed by Francis T. Baron to serve as a Union Station for Springfield, Illinois. The station was a joint effort between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O Railroad), Chicago, Peoria, and St. Louis Railroad (CP&StL), and Illinois Central Railroad, and later served the short-lived St. Louis, Peoria and North Western Railway. The station’s original 110 foot (34 meter) tall three-story tower was removed in 1946, ten years after the clock faces had been deactivated as a cost-saving measure during the Great Depression. It served as a passenger train station until 1971, when service was discontinued, in favor of Amtrak utilizing the through-running station along the Chicago and Alton Railroad lines, later known as the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GMO), just a few blocks to the west of the station. The building features a multi-colored brick exterior with dark red and light red bricks present alongside buff brick, stone trim, arched bays, a hipped roof, hipped dormers, a large canopy on the Madison Street facade with brick piers and large brackets, which was the former passenger platform alongside the railroad tracks, and a reconstructed tower with four turrets, a pyramidal hipped roof, and four clock faces. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. After passenger train service was discontinued, the building served as offices for the State of Illinois until 2004. Between 2004 and 2007, the building was restored to its original exterior appearance, with the reconstruction of the clock tower and restoration of historic exterior elements. Today, the building serves as the visitor center for the nearby Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
The Illinois Springfield campus has many beautiful places to relax, many quiet spaces to study and many exciting areas to connect with friends and check out the sights and sounds of UIS.
Built in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, these buildings demonstrate the general historic architectural character of Downtown Springfield, with stone and brick exteriors, decorative ornament, and first floor retail shopfronts. The buildings are contributing structures in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and expanded to its present size in 2016.
Awards Presentation: Jason Hadgis, Samantha Clark, Betsy Bauer
Springfield Band Show
September 17, 2006
Old Coca-Cola promo above a tavern at the corner of 1st and Main in the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida, just north of the current downtown.