Name This Peoria Landmark

If you build it, who will come?

I’ll agree with Billy that this is a cool diamond, and it is also my understanding that this one will survive the Zoo expansion, but… [editorial coming]… who cares? I have yet to see, in all my years of visiting Glen Oak Park, a single person playing baseball, or even catch, on either of the two Glen Oak ballfields. So I ask, what’s the big deal and why the outcry from the anti-Zoo Expansion activists over losing one of two unused ballfields?

No snarky comments allowed. Well… maybe just this one time.

Strolling down Adams St during the annual Santa Claus Parade are, from left to right, retiring Congressman Ray LaHood, 5th District Councilman Patrick Nichting, At Large Councilman Eric Turner (slightly hidden,) Mayor Jim Ardis, former Congressman Bob Michel, and rookie Councilman Ryan Spain.

…and God said “Bring your camera and I will give you a photo-op”

From the book Reading, Writing, and Religion by Monica Vest Wheeler- “Formally organized in 1891, St. Mark’s Church was built the following year at Underhill and Bradley. It was extensively remodeled and enlarged in 1920, described in the 1930’s as ‘one of the largest and most beautiful churches in the diocese.’”

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.

via an article about Joseph Greenhut in PEORIAmagazines.com: “Greenhut’s mansion on High Street at Sheridan (today officially 802 Sheridan) once featured a tall tower, a turret, and a glassed conservatory. The carriage house, decorated with white-painted cast iron horse heads, testifies to the grandeur of the original red brick architecture of the house.”

The only other reference to the Carriage House I could find is contained in the paperback Peoria – A Postcard History, which states that it was built in 1886, two years after the completion of the Greenhut Mansion.

You can read more about the Greenhut Mansion at NTPL#96, and the conversion to the Wolfner Apartments at NTPL#95.

Thanks to Mitch Mitchell and to all who commented.

A sign of art.

Other I.C.C.’s:

Illinois Commerce Commission
Incarnation Children’s Center
Independence Community College
India Community Center
India Culture Center
Indiana Captains Council
Indigenous Coordination Center
Institute for Computational Cosmology
Institute for Contemporary Culture
Intercultural Cancer Council
International Association for Cereal Science and Technology
International Careers Consortium
International Chamber of Commerce
International Christian College
International Christian Concern
International Church of Christ
International Color Consortium
International Committee for Crimea
International Conference on Communications
International Convention Center
International Corrosion Council
International Council Code
International Cricket Club
International Criminal Court
InterCommunication Center
Inter-Cooperative Council
Internet Chamber of Commerce
Internet Chess Club
Interprocessor Collective Communications Library
Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Invercargill City Council
Iranian Cinema Channel
Itawamba Community College
The ICC

Employee Entrance

Located in the alley between the Pere and the supposedly ‘world famous’ Big Al’s.

Big thanks to Angie, as my regular readers appeared to be stumped.

The jip-jam-jump is a jumpin’ jive!

Grandma’s Attic: The side wall of the Madison Theater, in the parking lot.

The Madison is on Peoria School District 150’s walking tour of Downtown and says this: Dee Robinson, a local showman, who owned the majority of the Peoria’s theaters, opened the Madison Theater on October 16, 1920. It was the last of the “picture palaces” in the downtown area and was a “silent” theater when it opened. This magnificent structure has become home to many shows over the years and still remains. In 1980, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.