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Springfield, MA. October 2016.
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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.
Broomhall : Springfield School
Springfield Primary School, Broomspring Lane, Broomhall, Sheffield, 1875.
By Innocent & Brown.
Enlarged 1892 & 1897 by CJ Innocent.
Built as Springfield Board School for the Sheffield School Board.
Grade ll listed.
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Springfield Junior and Infant Schools, Cavendish Street, Sheffield
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1247048
Listing NGR: SK3462586938
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247048
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-456196-springfield-ju...
Leyland Olympian Alexander RL.
South West Trains livery
new to Citybus, Hong Kong 134
MTT Running Day 2011
Liverpool South Parkway
"Springfield Manor Gardens (Formerly Little Sisters of The Poor) A care home with nursing located in Fulwood, Preston, Springfield Manor Gardens is a 58 bed home set in 4 acres of gardens."
228 Garstang Rd, Fulwood, Preston PR2 9QB
CSX M439-21 seen making their way west on the Boston Line passing CP97 in Springfield, MA. The 8094 is an Ex-SCL SD40-2, 3/21/25.
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito join Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno and other state and local officials to celebrate the redevelopment of Springfield’s Civic Center Garage on Aug. 20, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Slide purchased from Al Chione.
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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. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his 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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_State_Capitol
The Illinois State Capitol, located in Springfield, Illinois, houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Illinois. The current building is the sixth to serve as the capitol building since Illinois was admitted to the United States in 1818. Built in the architectural styles of the French Renaissance and Italianate, it was designed by Cochrane and Garnsey, an architecture and design firm based in Chicago. Ground was broken for the new capitol on March 11, 1868, and the building was completed twenty years later for a total cost of $4.5 million.
The building contains the chambers for the Illinois General Assembly, which is made up of the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. An office for the Governor of Illinois, additional offices, and committee rooms are also in the building. The capitol's footprint is cross-shaped, with four equal wings. Its tall central dome and tower roofs are covered in zinc to provide a silvery facade which does not weather. Architecture scholar Jean A. Follett describes it as a building that "is monumental in scale and rich in detail." The interior of the dome features a plaster frieze painted to resemble bronze, which illustrates scenes from Illinois history, and stained glass windows, including a stained glass replica of the state seal in the oculus of the dome.
Springfield Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Circular-style church built about 1970. Congregation organized in 1956. 5407 Backlick Road.
IMG_6332
The abandoned Springfield Church, located near the small town of Scott, Arkansas. The roof of the church has collapsed, and it sits nearly hidden behind overgrown trees.
Looks to be an old school of some kind on Dibert Ave in Springfield, Ohio. Listed on oldohioschools.com as Fulton School #1.
Broomhall : Springfield School
Springfield Primary School, Broomspring Lane, Broomhall, Sheffield, 1875.
By Innocent & Brown.
Enlarged 1892 & 1897 by CJ Innocent.
Built as Springfield Board School for the Sheffield School Board.
Grade ll listed.
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Springfield Junior and Infant Schools, Cavendish Street, Sheffield
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1247048
Listing NGR: SK3462586938
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247048
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-456196-springfield-ju...
Photographed at the 2010 International Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois on September 24-26, 2010.
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Dutch postcard. Photo: Phonogram.
Dusty Springfield (1939-1999) was a British singer whose style and husky voice emulated the Motown sounds she adored. Hailed as Britain's 'best ever pop singer' by Rolling Stone, she charted several 1960s hits, including I Only Want to Be With You and Son of a Preacher Man. Her peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, heavy make-up, and flamboyant performances on the black and white television of the 1960s, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
Dusty Springfield was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in London, England, in 1939. She was given the nickname 'Dusty' for playing football with boys in the street, and was described as a tomboy. Born in a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. She teamed up with her older brother Dion (later known as Tom), singing with him in their parents' garage. At the age of twelve, she made a recording of herself performing the Irving Berlin song 'When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam' at a local record shop in Ealing. After finishing school, Springfield sang with Tom in local folk clubs. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters. With her brother and a friend, she formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, in 1960. The Springfields disbanded in late 1963, allowing Dusty to launch a successful solo career. The run of success began just months after The Springfields ended, with the January 1964 hit I Only Want to Be With You, which reached no. 4 in Britain and no. 12 in the U.S. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc in the UK. In 1964, Springfield recorded two Burt Bacharach songs: Wishin' and Hopin' – a US Top 10 hit – and the emotional I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself, which reached No. 3 on the UK chart. Her other hits include Some of Your Lovin' (1965), You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (1966) and Son of a Preacher Man (1969).
As a fan of US pop music, Dusty Springfield brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-selling Motown artists beginning in 1965. She adored singers like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin. Springfield went to the US to work on an album with legendary music producer Jerry Wexler, the man behind albums by Franklin and Ray Charles. The album, Dusty in Memphis (1969), would be the pinnacle of her success. It has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine Rolling Stone and in polls by New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers. Springfield's career following Dusty in Memphis proved inconsistent and her private life was also a turmoil. From mid-1966 to the early 1970s Springfield lived in a domestic partnership with fellow singer Norma Tanega. From late 1972 to 1978, Springfield had a relationship with Faye Harris, a US photojournalist. In 1981 she had a six-month love affair with singer-musician Carole Pope of the rock band Rough Trade. During periods of psychological and professional instability, Springfield's involvement in some intimate relationships, influenced by addiction, resulted in episodes of personal injury. In 1982 Springfield met American actress Teda Bracci, at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. In 1983, they exchanged vows at a wedding ceremony which was not legally recognised under California law. The pair had a tempestuous relationship which led to an altercation with both Springfield and Bracci hospitalised – Springfield had been smashed in the mouth by Bracci wielding a saucepan and had teeth knocked out requiring plastic surgery. The pair had separated within two years. After a bout with drugs and alcohol, she saw her career resurrected with the Pet Shop Boys song What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1987) and the soundtrack to the film Scandal (1988). In 1989, she had two other UK hits with Nothing Has Been Proved and In Private. Subsequently in the mid-1990s, owing to the inclusion of Son of a Preacher Man on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, interest in her early output was revived.Springfield, who returned to England in the early 1990s, released her final studio album, A Very Fine Love, in 1995. That same year, she was diagnosed with cancer. From there on out, health problems were a constant in her life. Dusty Sprinfield passed away from cancer, in 1999.
Source: Biography.com and Wikipedia.
Built in 1974, this Modern International-style building was designed by Architectural and Mechanical Systems Corporation to serve as a modern hotel for downtown Springfield, originally being known as the Forum 30 Plaza Hotel, later being known as the Hilton Towers Hotel in the 1980s, the Springfield Hilton Hotel starting in the 1990s, and in 2015, the Wyndham Springfield City Centre. It is the tallest building in Springfield, standing 352 feet (107 meters) and 30 floors tall, but sits on much lower ground than the Illinois State Capitol, allowing the dome of the Capitol to remain dominant on the city’s skyline. The building has a dodecagon-shaped tower with travertine at the corners and crown, flanking the glass curtain walls, a crown that tapers outwards towards the 30th floor and inwards towards the roof, and a two-story C-shaped podium surrounding a central automobile entrance court. The building today remains in use as a hotel, and is a dominant feature of the skyline of Springfield.