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A very dirty 47107 running through Springfield station on 6E89 Aberdeen Craiginches to Immingham. 5 March 1986.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey today in Springfield announced a statewide mode shift goal of tripling the share of travel in Massachusetts by bicycling, transit and walking.
United Methodist Women’s Just Energy for All training Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church in Springfield, Illinois.
Photo by Rich Saal/Rich Saal Photography
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It took three years, but Karen Mathis' predictions for Springfield retail relief have finally arrived in the form of a new Walgreens store at 8th and Davis. Seen here as just an empty lot, the Walgreens will be a welcome addition to the the neighborhood. I could see that placing being mobbed by snack starved Shandsies. What a great place, in walking distance, to get basics.
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
nrhp # 78001187- Central Springfield Historic District- The Central Springfield Historic District is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) historic district in downtown Springfield. 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 Springfield's population boom in the 1860s and its subsequent growth in the latter half of the 19th century. These buildings included hotels, drug stores, groceries, clothing stores, and dry goods stores; some of the stores built in this period are still in operation. The businesses are also significant examples of 19th-century brick commercial architecture, including the Romanesque Pierick-Sommer Building and several works by prominent Springfield architects Helmle & Helmle.[1]
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1978.[2] A boundary extension in 1986 added seven more buildings to the district.
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Left to right, Annette Wright of Mebane, North Carolina, Miok Fowler of Denver, and Gladys Carter of Washington, D.C., talk during a break out session at United Methodist Women’s Just Energy for All training Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church in Springfield, Illinois.
Photo by Rich Saal/Rich Saal Photography
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President of the United States. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site, and the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Source: www.visitspringfieldillinois.com/BlogDetails/Street_Art
The concept came to life during an event that started September 2017, to help raise funds to benefit downtown revitalization. It’s a pop up art event in where you can watch artists compete to create a mural in one day and unveil it during a reception party that night. Each year the murals change, making this a great spot to visit and wander through and take pics or the amazing artwork!
Springfield Armory Museum, Springfield Massachusetts.
The Springfield Armory was established in 1777, at the request of George Washington and Henry Knox, to build weapons for the United States military. Another armory was established in Harper's Ferry Virginia. Harper's Ferry Armory was destroyed in the Civil War and was never rebuilt. The Springfield Armory was the major source of American weapons until it was closed in 1968.
This is the front of the Main Arsenal building which houses the museum.
When I was in high school in Springfield, Oregon, which was longer ago than I care to think about, cars like this were THE thing for the cool kids... one of which I was not.
Last week I visited my home town, and the same style of cars, in the same not-quite-running condition, continue to beautify driveways and side yards around the same neighborhoods.
I have no doubt that if I were to knock on the door of the house and ask the owner what he intended to do with this car, I'd get the same response I heard throughout my high school years: it just needs a little work and some wheels and tires and it will be worth a lot of money.
Other than the new construction, row after row of identical rental townhouses, this place is like some kind of weird Twilight Zone, forever stuck in the late 1970s.
© 2013 Mike McCall / Mike McCall Photography. Fox Theatre Institute's Theatre Revival Tour featuring von Grey. Mars Theatre, Springfield, GA.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
October 9's WHAT it is Wednesday was a cobbler's bench, used for shoemaking and repair. (The miniature version was a handcrafted piece in a frontier diorama scene that we were working on yesterday). We wanted to give you some tidbits from the museum and archives that represent the many many shoe stores and shoe repair shops that were in Springfield. Around 1950 there were FOURTEEN shoe stores in downtown Springfield alone! The 1949 Bill Swonger downtown models on the first floor of the museum show quite of few of those places. Models represented in the collage photo here: Nisley Shoe Company (in the Arcade), Patsiavos Shoe Repair (26 W. Main and Foster), and Dohan Shoes (15 E. Main Street). The last shoe place to leave the downtown was Carmen's Shoe Salon (24 E. Main) in 2000. Also in today's shoe related collage: a full-sized cobbler's bench from our collections, trade cards and ads from George Horner, P. O'Toole and Starkey & Scowden (in the Arcade), a birthday card and sign from Nisley Shoes, a postcard of their location in the Arcade, Nisley's arcade entrance, and the Nisley sign by Mattie Guthries just before the Arcade demolition. You can also see Christ Patsiavos' shoe shaped shoe repair place on the corner of N. Limestone and College, along with the Cat's Meow of the memorable building. In the top right corner of the collage is a picture of the Sterling Shoe Repair building that was located on the spot where Memorial Hall later stood at 300 W. Main Street.
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.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham