The Illinois Governor's Mansion (known until 2018 as the Illinois Executive Mansion) has served as the official residence of Illinois' Governors and their families since 1855. The Mansion is located in the Old Aristocracy Hill neighborhood of Springfield, blocks from the State Capitol. The Italianate-style mansion was designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel. The 16-room manor is one of the three oldest continuously occupied governor's mansions in the United States.
The Governor's Mansion has undergone several renovations over the years including an extensive $15 million project completed in 2018.
The Illinois Governor's Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Tags: Springfield Sangamon County Illinois IL Governor's Mansion Executive Mansion Architectural Style Italianate Architect John M. Van Osdel Van Osdel National Register of Historic Places NRHP Reference # 76000728
The Illinois Governor's Mansion (known until 2018 as the Illinois Executive Mansion) has served as the official residence of Illinois' Governors and their families since 1855. The Mansion is located in the Old Aristocracy Hill neighborhood of Springfield, blocks from the State Capitol. The Italianate-style mansion was designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel. The 16-room manor is one of the three oldest continuously occupied governor's mansions in the United States.
The Governor's Mansion has undergone several renovations over the years including an extensive $15 million project completed in 2018.
The Illinois Governor's Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Tags: Springfield Sangamon County Illinois IL Governor's Mansion Executive Mansion Architectural Style Italianate Architect John M. Van Osdel Van Osdel National Register of Historic Places NRHP Reference # 76000728
The Illinois Governor's Mansion (known until 2018 as the Illinois Executive Mansion) has served as the official residence of Illinois' Governors and their families since 1855. The Mansion is located in the Old Aristocracy Hill neighborhood of Springfield, blocks from the State Capitol. The Italianate-style mansion was designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel.
The 16-room manor is one of the three oldest continuously occupied governor's mansions in the United States. The Governor's Mansion has undergone several renovations over the years including an extensive $15 million project completed in 2018. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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The Illinois Governor's Mansion (known until 2018 as the Illinois Executive Mansion) has served as the official residence of Illinois' Governors and their families since 1855. The Mansion is located in the Old Aristocracy Hill neighborhood of Springfield, blocks from the State Capitol. The Italianate-style mansion was designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel.
The 16-room manor is one of the three oldest continuously occupied governor's mansions in the United States. The Governor's Mansion has undergone several renovations over the years including an extensive $15 million project completed in 2018. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Flying in front of the mansion are the Ukrainian and Pan African flags. Illinois has the fifth largest population of Ukrainians in the United States, with Chicago having the second largest metropolitan area concentration. The Pan African flag is raised in honor of Black History Month, which is the month of February in the U.S.
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The Dana-Thomas House, perhaps the best-preserved example of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Prairie period” dwellings, was built for feminist socialite and heiress Susan Lawrence Dana (1862-1946). Constructed between 1902 and 1904, the spectacular brick house was the largest designed by Wright to that time. It covers 12,600 square feet, with thirty-five rooms and sixteen major spaces. The house contains more than 100 pieces of original Wright furniture, 250 examples of art glass doors and windows, and more than 100 art glass light fixtures.
Designed for entertaining, the home’s Gallery and Dining Room can seat forty, and both have two-story barrel-vaulted ceilings. Musicians’ balconies overlook the large public gathering spaces. Other features include an interior terra cotta fountain and a basement duck pin bowling alley. The house has been “restored” to appear as it might have been furnished shortly after being built.
Dana lived in the home from 1904 until about 1928. Once a successful hostess and leader of Springfield's social scene, she became increasingly reclusive over time. Suffering from increasing financial constraints in her later years, she closed the main house around 1928 and moved to a small cottage on the grounds. As Dana struggled with age-related dementia in the 1940s, her home and its contents were sold.
Charles C. Thomas, a successful medical publisher, was the second owner and custodian of the home from 1944 to his death in 1969. A view of the building was featured on the title pages of some of his publications. His wife Nanette maintained in that role until her passing in 1975. The couple are credited with maintaining the house's original furnishings and design, and their estate with selling the home and its furnishings as a unit to the State of Illinois in 1981 for $1.0 million, significantly less than could have been earned had the household been broken up.
The home became a state historic site under the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA), now the Historic Preservation Division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The IHPA led a restoration effort in 1987–1990 that restored the structure and its contents to its appearance in 1910. It is believed to contain one of the most intact Frank Lloyd Wright designed interiors in the United States.
In 1974 the structure was entered on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1976 was designated a National Historic Landmark.
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