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Springfield used to be a gateway city and it still is! These tracks could represent the connection between the past and future. Do you see what is in the middle of it? The present! My son! How does what we invest now, in him, impact our future?
Built in 1852, this Italianate-style building was constructed to serve as a passenger station on the Great Western Railroad at Springfield, and was heavily renovated after a fire in 1857. The building was originally one story in height, and was the location of Lincoln’s Farewell Address in 1861, when he left Springfield for Washington, DC to serve as the President of the United States. The building was expanded in 1900 with the addition of a second floor, at which time the Great Western Railroad had merged with several other railroads to form what was initially known as the Toledo, Wabash, and Western Railroad in 1865, later known as the Wabash Railroad after 1877. The building served as a freight station beginning in the late 19th Century, and was utilized by a variety of businesses, including serving as a warehouse, before being heavily damaged by a major fire in 1968. After the fire, the building was restored to its circa 1900 appearance, and was utilized as a museum, becoming affiliated with Sangamon State University between 1977 and 1980, but being discontinued due to a lack of funding during the public austerity spearheaded by the Reagan administration. The building subsequently was managed by the Copley Press, who owned the building and the local newspaper known as The State Journal-Register, until 2012, when the building was sold to attorney Jon Gray Noll. Roll undertook a major rehabilitation of the building, moving his law offices to the second floor, and opening the first floor as a museum. The building features a red brick exterior, brick pilasters, arched bays containing six-over-six and two-over-two windows, a low-pitch gabled roof with large brackets, and a modern concrete ramp alongside the railroad tracks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
On the left, built in 1891, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style building is known as the Hofferkamp Building, and features a sandstone exterior, one-over-one double-hung windows flanked by engaged stone columns, decorative stone trim, a large blind arch above the third floor windows, and a modified first floor storefront with a cast iron surround. On the right, built in 1885, this Italianate-style building features a red brick exterior, limestone trim, a bracketed cornice with a decorative gable parapet, one-over-one windows, and a modified first floor facade. The buildings are contributing structures in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and expanded to its present size in 2016.
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Kansas City Blues Rugby team and the Queen City Chaos vs the Omaha Goats women's rugby teams.
Built in 1975, this Neotraditional-style building features a red brick exterior, copper-clad bonnet roof, decorative oriel windows on the second floor, and an arcade with arched openings at the ground floor. The building is a noncontributing 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.
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
State Capitol
Illinois Supreme Court Building
The current Supreme Court Building was erected at a cost of $450,500. At dedication ceremonies, Chief Justice John P. Hand accepted the keys to the building on February 4, 1908.
The Institute of Politics staff members Darren, Dillan, and Shengxiao took 7 undergraduate students to Springfield Jan 2-3 to attend the Lame Duck session of the Illinois General Assembly, meet with state senators, and to see politics in action.
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
Built in 1922-1923, this Classical Revival-style building was constructed to serve as the Elks Lodge for the fraternal organization’s chapter in Springfield. The building features a red brick exterior with terra cotta trim, one-over-one windows, a sixth floor that was added to the rooftop of the original building, cast iron railings and balconies, decorative window trim on the principal facade, a terra cotta cornice with modillions, and rusticated terra cotta cladding at the base. The building today serves as a commercial office building, known as the Bucari Commerce Building.
We drove on Old Route 66 in Springfield Illinois. Looked at the Capital then headed east to Sangchris Lake.
Built in 1925, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Alfred S. Alshuler to serve as the home of the Myers Department Store. The building features a brown brick exterior, decorative terra cotta trim, solomonic engaged columns at the paired arched bays at the top of the building, a decorative terra cotta cornice, decorative geometric motifs, and a modified Modern facade on the first three floors of the building, which features concrete spandrel panels and brown brick cladding. 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.