Main Street Historic District (Tampico, Illinois)

The Main Street Historic District in Tampico in the state of Illinois is a conservation area, which is significant because it contains the birthplace of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The area includes a group of buildings that represented the center of the business district of Tampico, including two apartments which were inhabited by Reagan's family in the early years of the 20th century. The buildings in the Historic District have been rebuilt several times during the 1870s because they were damaged by fires and a tornado. The boundaries of the conservation area does not include the 100 block of Main Street ( the main street of Tampico ), but property that is not dated from the historical time.

The historic district is an intact business district of a small, rural town of Illinois ' represents the buildings have a uniform architectural equality; each of the buildings contained within the district is dependent on the other to be significant. The contributing properties are separated into the two main groups " contributing building " and " building material ". The two business houses where Reagan's family apartment on the second floor inhabited belong to the group of "essential building ". The Main Street Historic District was registered in 1982 in the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Tampico, Illinois, located in the southeast of the Whiteside County, was founded in 1858, but the majority of the settlers did not arrive until around 1871 in the area one, partly due to the swampy landscape of the area. After a railway line was built by Tampice by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1871, began a growth of the place, however, was faced with several setbacks to. In the years 1872, 1874 and 1876, larger fires, which required the repeated expansion of the central business district along the main road occurred. A tornado destroyed about 40 buildings in 1874 and enlarged the city's problems. As a result of the repeated rebuilding the buildings along Main Street, which emerged after 1876 were built of bricks.

Between 1896 and 1905, the area has undergone along Main Street in Tampico a construction boom. Several agriculturally oriented industrial enterprises settled during this time in Tampico. The construction of the Hennepin Canals 1899-1907 also contributed to new buildings were constructed and developed in that era of construction of five new buildings on Main Street. In 1906, the family of Ronald Reagan moved here and first lived in the apartment on the second floor of the building at 111 Main Street. Later they lived in other places in Tampico, moved to and lived again for a short time in another apartment on the second floor within the district.

The Main Street (Illinois State Route 172) in Tampico today has less building in a lower density than the time of their architectural peak of 1871-1920. Fires and new buildings are partly responsible. Despite the lower number of buildings of the row of shophouses along the east side of the street illustrates the prior density of the district.

Confines

Historically incorporates the central business district in Tampico a road block that. 100 with the house numbers of the Main Street, which extended from Market Street in the north to the tracks of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the south The boundaries of the conservation district correspond mostly the traditional boundaries of the business district, but does not include buildings from the period after 1920 and buildings that serve residential purposes.

The northern boundary of the conservation district, near the Market Street includes the building 106 and 107 South Main Street, where a are excluded at the time of entry into the free land and a new tab. The southern boundary was drawn along the 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 neo-colonial, 1970s era bank- building. With the exception of a house all the buildings in the district are two- and thereby contribute to a unified architectural rhythm and harmony. Most of the buildings of the conservation district have matching Gesimslinien and the two buildings with timber framework in the district date from the period before registration of Tampico as a village. The land use within the limits of the territory is invariably a commercial nature and the architecture of the building refers to this use. The architecturally significant buildings within the district are part of a coherent, integrated unit. Its meaning is dependent on each other, the distance of the houses would affect the integrity of any other building.

Objects in the conservation district

Contributing Structures

The three buildings 106, 110 and 131 South Main Street are classified as contributing properties to Main Street Historic District in Tampico, since although they are from the same time as the other buildings, but later underwent significant changes. In addition, these three buildings are arranged individually and are thus not integrated into the visual harmony of the significant buildings of the district as a whole.

The 131 Main building on the east side of the road was originally built in 1873 and belonged to the company Glas Burn Lumber and Feed The western facade of the house was changed by a new shop front and a false mansard roof were added. The buildings 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 conceals the gable roof. In the house were once a millinery and a beauty salon. The eastern facade was later changed significantly. 110 S. Main Street is a 1905 built two -story brick building that was once the Masonic Lodge - A part of its cornice was removed and replaced by a verschindeltes canopy.

H.C. Pitney Variety Store

The building, as H.C. Pitney Variety Store is known, was built in 1900 by Ray McKenzie. Under various owners, the small department store existed from 1911 to 1920. HC Pitney was the owner of the store from 1911 to 1914, when he sold it. During this time, Jack Pitney Reagan, the father of the late U.S. president employed, as a seller. Later Pitney was again the owner of the property. Noteworthy is the home for its residents in the years 1919-1920. During this time the family of Ronald Reagan lived in the apartment on the second floor.

The building is part of a two storey block and connected to the adjacent house. Of these two structures is Pitneys Download the newer, the other building was built a year earlier. The brick building has a cornice made ​​of metal and two store fronts at different addresses, 124 Main Street with three windows and 122 Main Street, with four windows.

Birthplace of Ronald Reagan

The building 111 Main Street, which is known as the birthplace of the 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan, was built in 1896 for GW Stauffer by Fred Harvey Seymour and later as Graham Building known. From 1896 until 1915 it housed a restaurant. In the second-floor apartment above the restaurant was born on February 6, 1911 Ronald Reagan. A few months after his birth, the Reagans moved out of the apartment into a house in order.

The architecture of the two-story brick building is similar to the surrounding buildings. It has three windows on the second floor and a cornice. Only the oldest buildings in the district are different from the cornices of metal and the recessed windows of Reagan's birthplace. The ground floor of the house was again rebuilt as First National Bank, which used the house from 1919 to 1931. On the second floor the apartment has resurfaced again according to the time period in which Reagan was born. The house can be visited by the public, and is listed as " significant".

Other significant buildings

The Contributing Properties in this historic district are divided into two categories, "significant" and " contributing ". Significantly, those buildings that stand out architecturally or historically. Ten of the 14 buildings in the conservation district are considered to be significant. These are grouped into two groups of buildings. The first group includes the building 107-119 Main Street on the east side of the road and the second is the building 122-126 Main Street on the west side of the street.

107 Main Street was built in 1903 for Susie Slippell and was originally a store for Beshir conclusions. The next building, 109 Main, built in 1898 JJ Blietz, who ran a grocery and meat trade. The adjoining building is the birthplace of Ronald Reagan. 113 and 115 Main Street were built at the same time in 1900 and have a common wall. In 113 Main Street now houses a gift shop, and was built by Fred Seymour for his grocery store. The building with the number 115 was built for MR Lyon and was from 1903 from a funeral home.

The buildings 117 and 119 S. Main Street are the oldest brick buildings in this historic district and built in 1877 after the last big fire in the center of Tampico. 117 Main housed the grocery store, meat retail and grocery stores of JC Paice and still has its original cast-iron storefront. The building was built for 119 Main Ruben Davis. It was damaged by fire in 1980, but subsequently set repaired.

The second group of significant buildings can be found on the western side of Main Street from house number 122 to 126, the two store fronts 122 and 124 Main Street are the HC Pitney Variety Store. The associated building was erected in 1899 for AJ Glass Burn, son of the town's founder, John Glass Burn. From 1899 to 1931, the house, the Tampico State Bank, AJ Glass Burn housed board as director. Glass Burn was also mayor of Tampico during 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 conservation area

The Main Street Historic District in Tampico, Illinois is on two areas is essential. On the one hand, it represents an intact example of a central business district in a rural town in Illinois, on the other hand is the birthplace of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, within its borders. For these reasons, the district was registered on 3 June 1982 in the National Register of Historic Places.