Main Street Historic District (Tampico, Illinois)
| Main Street Historic District | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
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 Section of Main Street in Tampico, Illinois |
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| location | Tampico , Whiteside County , Illinois | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 37 '52 " N , 89 ° 47' 9" W | ||
| NRHP number | 82002602 | ||
| The NRHP added | 3rd June 1982 | ||
The Main Street Historic District in Tampico in the US state of Illinois is a conservation area, which is significant because it is the birthplace of former US president Ronald Reagan has. The area includes a cluster of buildings that formed the center of Tampico's business district, including two apartments that were occupied by Reagan's family in the early years of the 20th century. The buildings in the Historic District were remodeled several times during the 1870s when they were damaged by fire and a tornado . The conservation area's boundaries include the 100 block of Main Street (Tampico's main drag), but not property that does not date from historic times.
The historic district is an intact business district of a small, rural town of Illinois. The buildings have a uniform architectural identity; each of the contained buildings within the district is dependent on the others to be significant. The contributing properties are divided into the two main groups “contributing buildings” and “essential buildings”. The two commercial buildings in which Reagan's family lived in apartments on the second floor belong to the group of "essential buildings". The Main Street Historic District was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 .
history
Tampico, Illinois, located in southeast Whiteside County , was established in 1858, but the majority of settlers did not arrive in the area until about 1871, in part due to the area's swampy landscape. After the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad built a railway line through Tampice in 1871, the town began to grow, but was faced with several setbacks. Major fires occurred in 1872, 1874 and 1876 , necessitating the repeated construction of the central business district along the main street. A tornado destroyed around 40 buildings in 1874, adding to the city's problems. As a result of repeated rebuilding, the buildings along Main Street, which emerged after 1876, were made of brick .
Between 1896 and 1905, the area along Main Street in Tampico experienced a building boom . Several agriculturally oriented industrial companies settled in Tampico during this time. The construction of Hennepin Canal between 1899 and 1907 also helped create new buildings, and during that construction period five new buildings were built on Main Street. In 1906, the Ronald Reagan family moved in and initially lived in the apartment on the second floor of the building at 111 Main Street. They later moved to different locations in Tampico, moved, and stayed in another apartment on the second floor within the neighborhood for a short time.
Main Street ( Illinois State Route 172 ) in Tampico has fewer buildings today in a lower density than at the time of its architectural peak between 1871 and 1920. Fires and new buildings are partly responsible for this. Despite the smaller number of buildings, the row of commercial buildings along the east side of the street illustrates the neighborhood's former density.
Limits
Historically, the central business district in Tampico comprises one block, the one at 100's on Main Street, that stretched from Market Street in the north to the tracks of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad in the south. The boundaries of the monument protection district mostly correspond to the traditional boundaries of the business district, but do not include buildings from the period after 1920 and buildings used for residential purposes.
The north boundary of the historic district near Market Street includes Buildings 106 and 107 South Main Street, excluding property vacant at the time of entry and new construction. The southern border was drawn along Pig Alley and does not include a modern granary near the railway line.
architecture
The buildings of the historic district are all built in the same style, save the neocolonial style , 1970s era bank building. With the exception of one house, all buildings in the district are two-story, thus contributing to a uniform architectural rhythm and harmony. Most of the buildings in the listed district have matching cornice lines, and the two timber frame buildings in the district date from before Tampico was registered as a town. The use of land within the boundaries of the area is without exception of a commercial nature and the architecture of the buildings makes reference to this use. The most architecturally significant buildings within the district are part of a coherent, integrated unit. Their importance is interdependent, the removal of one of the houses would affect the integrity of all other buildings.
Objects in the monument protection district
Contributing structures
The three buildings, 106, 110, and 131 South Main Street, are classified as contributing properties to the Main Street Historic District in Tampico because, while they date from the same period as the rest of the buildings, they have undergone significant changes later. In addition, these three buildings stand individually and are therefore not integrated into the visual harmony of the significant structures of the district as a whole.
131 Main, on the east side of the street, was originally built in 1873 and belonged to Glassburn Lumber and Feed. The west facade of the house was changed by adding a new shop front and false mansard roof. Structures 106 and 110 Main are connected by a one-story building in between. 106 S. Main Street was built in 1873 and has a false front with parapet that hides the gable roof. The house used to be a hat-making shop and a beauty salon. The eastern facade was later changed significantly. 110 S. Main Street is a two-story brick building built in 1905 that once served as the Masonic Lodge . Part of its cornice was removed and replaced with a shingled canopy.
HC Pitney Variety Store
The building known as the HC Pitney Variety Store was built in 1900 by Ray McKenzie. The department store existed under different owners from 1911 to 1920. HC Pitney owned the shop from 1911 to 1914 when he sold it. During this time Pitney employed Jack Reagan, the father of the future US president, as a salesman. Pitney later re-owned the property. The house is noteworthy because of its residents in the years 1919–1920. During this period, the Ronald Reagan family lived in the apartment on the second floor.
The building is part of a two-story block and is connected to the adjacent house. Of these two structures, Pitney's store is the newer one, and the other structure was built a year earlier. The brick building has a metal cornice and two storefronts at different addresses, 124 Main Street with three windows and 122 Main Street with four windows.
Ronald Reagan's birthplace
The 111 Main Street building, known as the birthplace of the 40th US President Ronald Reagan, was built in 1896 for GW Stauffer by Fred Harvey Seymour and later known as the Graham Building. From 1896 to 1915 it was a restaurant . Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in the apartment on the second floor above the pub . A few months after he was born, the Reagans moved from the apartment to a house.
The architecture of the two-story brick building is similar to that of the surrounding buildings. It has three windows and a cornice on the second floor. Only the oldest buildings in the district differ from the house where Reagan was born, with metal cornices and recessed windows. The ground floor of the house was restored as the First National Bank, which used the house from 1919-1931. The apartment on the second floor has been restored to match the period into which Reagan was born. The house can be viewed by the public and is listed as "significant".
Other significant structures
The contributing properties in this historic district are divided into two categories, "significant" and "contributing". Buildings that stand out architecturally or historically are significant. Ten of the 14 buildings in the listed district are considered significant. These are grouped into two building groups. One group includes buildings 107–119 Main Street on the east side of the street and the second includes buildings 122–126 Main Street on the west side of the street.
107 Main Street was built for Susie Slippell in 1903 and was originally a harness shop. The next building, 109 Main, was built in 1898 by JJ Blietz, who ran a food and meat trade. The adjacent building is the birthplace of Ronald Reagan. 113 and 115 Main Streets were built simultaneously in 1900 and share a common wall. A gift shop is now located at 113 Main Street and was once built by Fred Seymour for his grocery store. The building at number 115 was built for MR Lyon and was a funeral home from 1903 onwards.
Buildings 117 and 119 S. Main Street are the oldest brick buildings in this historic district and were constructed in central Tampico in 1877 after the last major fire. 117 Main was home to JC Paice's grocery store, meat shop and general store and still has its original cast-iron shop front. Building 119 Main was built for Ruben Davis. It was damaged by fire in 1980, but was subsequently repaired.
The second group of significant structures can be found on the west side of Main Street from number 122 to 126. The two storefronts 122 and 124 Main Street are the HC Pitney Variety Store. The associated building was built in 1899 for AJ Glassburn, son of the city's founder, John Glassburn. From 1899 to 1931 the house housed the Tampico State Bank , of which AJ Glassburn was director. Glassburn was also Mayor of Tampico for three time periods, 1882–1885, 1887–1893, and 1901–1902. After 1931 the building was used by another bank and a lumber and hardware store.
Significance of the monument protection area
The Main Street Historic District in Tampico, Illinois is essential in two areas. For one, it represents an intact example of a central business district in a rural Illinois city, and for another, the birthplace of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, is within its borders. For these reasons, the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Michael Ward: Main Street Historic District ( Memento of August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), (PDF; 521 kB), National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, April 1, 1982, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
- ^ " Main Street Historic District, " Property Information Report, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency . Retrieved September 11, 2007.
- ↑ Berger, Marilyn. " Reagan had long struggle with Alzheimer's Disease, " The New York Times , June 5, 2004, p. 4. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
- ^ Birthplace of President Ronald Reagan . Tampico Historical Society. Tampico, Illinois.
- ^ Main Street Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2017.