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TJ Blakeman
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Neil Street or Eleventh Street?
Street Renaming Plan Throws the Streets of Champaign into Chaos! On August 12, 1913, a simple nine to two vote by the Champaign City...
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TJ Blakeman
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106-108 South Neil Street - Atkinson Monument Company & Price Paint Store
106 South Neil Street - Atkinson Monument Company Constructed: 1904 Owner/Builder: S.P. Atkinson 108 South Neil Street - Price Paint...
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TJ Blakeman
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101 South Neil Street - Faulkner Building
101 South Neil Street - Faulkner Building Constructed: Before 1902 Razed: mid 1980s The 1902 Sandborn Map below shows the Faulkner Drug...
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TJ Blakeman
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401 North Neil Street - Beardsley Hotel
The Neil House/Olive House Constructed 1850s Owner: Samuel Dean Razed: 1887 (Fire) The following excerpt is taken from the historical...
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TJ Blakeman
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102 North Neil Street - Champaign City Building
Original Champaign City Building Constructed: 1889 Architect: Sealy Brown Razed: 1935-36 (Razed) Before the construction of Champaign's...
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TJ Blakeman
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115 North Neil Street - Illinois Building
The Illinois Building #1 Constructed: 1900 (cost $125,000/$3.6 million adj. to 2012) Destroyed by fire: March 15, 1915 Owner: Noel Family...
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TJ Blakeman
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201 North Neil Street - Walker Opera House/Hamilton Hotel
Walker Opera House Constructed: abt. 1887 Razed: abt 1917 (Razed) The Walker Opera House was Champaign's first grand theaters constructed...
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