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Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
Built in 1912, this Classical Revival-style building features a red brick exterior, paired one-over-one windows in arched bays, limestone trim, first floor bays flanked by cast iron piers with cast iron lintels, limestone belt coursing, and a metal cornice with modillions and dentils. The building is a contributing structure in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and expanded to its present size in 2016.
Another disused house, a former residence of the Boles family in the C19. Springfield is a detached U-plan five-bay two-storey country house built c.1770, and featuring imposing chimney stacks and a Venetian window on the first floor now almost completely hidden by encroaching vegetation.
State Capitol
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Everett Dirksen served Illinois for 34 years as a Congressman and U.S. Senator. The elephant, donkey, and oil can at his feet represent his skills at fostering cooperation between Republicans and Democrats to enact important legislation. The statue was dedicated on September 16, 1976.
Sculptor: Carl Tolpo
1975