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a sunset pan of the northern tip of Lake Springfield. The Springfield power plant is in the middle, where the two smokestacks are.
State Capitol
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.
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.
1,200 people turn out for the Western Massachusetts Climate Justice March in Springfield, MA.
Credit all photos to “Copyright © Rene Theberge 2017”
Rene Theberge Photography
250 Shutesbury Road
Amherst, MA 01002
rene.theberge@icloud.com
(413) 575-8123
1,200 people turn out for the Western Massachusetts Climate Justice March in Springfield, MA.
Credit all photos to “Copyright © Rene Theberge 2017”
Rene Theberge Photography
250 Shutesbury Road
Amherst, MA 01002
rene.theberge@icloud.com
(413) 575-8123
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.