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Built in the mid-20th Century, this neotraditional Italianate-style house is an inaccurate reconstruction of the Elizabeth and Ninian Edwards House, which once stood on 2nd Street, and was where Abraham Lincoln married his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, in 1842. The building features a red brick exterior, a low-pitch hipped roof, a cornice with paired brackets, eight-over-eight windows with shutters, porches with corinthian columns, open pier foundations, decorative paneling, and decorative balustrades, and Colonial Revival-style doorways with fanlight transoms, which is perhaps the most incongruous element with the long-demolished house it was meant to resemble, a result of mid-20th Century misconceptions about historic architecture, colored by the infatuation of the public and historians with architecture of the colonial period and early republic. The house is noncontributing structure in the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
(Springfield, MA, 01/13/22) The Hoophall Classic inside Blake Arena at Springfield College on Thursday, January 13, 2022. Photo by Christopher Evans
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Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, joined by Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) President and CEO Larry Andrews, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, Rep. Carlos González, and other local officials, announce $30 million in state funding across four grant programs administered by the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) to help small businesses recover, grow and thrive after touring White Lion Brewing Company in Springfield on June 16, 2021. Among these investments, the Baker-Polito Administration announced the award of $4 million to 45 non-profit technical assistance providers to continue working with small businesses and entrepreneurs from traditionally underserved communities to grow and expand their businesses. In addition, the administration announced $14.7 million in awards to 15 organizations under MGCC’s Community Development Financial Institution and Community Development Corporatioon’s Match Grant Program, which funds both lending and mini-grant programs for small businesses. Stay informed about COVID-19 by visiting mass.gov/covid19, calling 2-1-1 or texting COVIDMA (COVIDMAESP for Spanish) to 888-777 for updates. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, joined by Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) President and CEO Larry Andrews, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, Rep. Carlos González, and other local officials, announce $30 million in state funding across four grant programs administered by the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) to help small businesses recover, grow and thrive after touring White Lion Brewing Company in Springfield on June 16, 2021. Among these investments, the Baker-Polito Administration announced the award of $4 million to 45 non-profit technical assistance providers to continue working with small businesses and entrepreneurs from traditionally underserved communities to grow and expand their businesses. In addition, the administration announced $14.7 million in awards to 15 organizations under MGCC’s Community Development Financial Institution and Community Development Corporatioon’s Match Grant Program, which funds both lending and mini-grant programs for small businesses. Stay informed about COVID-19 by visiting mass.gov/covid19, calling 2-1-1 or texting COVIDMA (COVIDMAESP for Spanish) to 888-777 for updates. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito join the family and friends of the beloved late businessman Andy Yee, as well as state, local and hospital officials, to celebrate the announcement of a fundraiser for the creation of the Andy Yee Palliative Care Unit at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield on June 15, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito join the family and friends of the beloved late businessman Andy Yee, as well as state, local and hospital officials, to celebrate the announcement of a fundraiser for the creation of the Andy Yee Palliative Care Unit at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield on June 15, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
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 Navistar plant off Lagonda Avenue was torn down shortly after these photos were taken.
Copyright Jeremiah Ilges
State Capitol
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The statue of Dr. King was unveiled on January 14, 1988 and displayed in the Capitol rotunda until it was moved outside the Illinois State Museum in 1989. In 1993 the statue was moved to its present location at "Freedom Corner" across 2nd Street from the Lincoln statue. Dr. King is the only non-Illinoisan to be honored with a statue.
Sculptor: Geraldine McCullough
1988