{"nrhp_refnum":"00001337","name":"Adams Building","other_names":["Bridgett Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"139-141 N. Vermilion St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danville","county":"Vermilion County","state":"IL","lat":40.12737069800005,"lon":-87.62980719899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story Classical Revival commercial building at 139-141 North Vermilion Street in downtown Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, built in 1905 by real estate developer William M. Bridgett, with a fifth story added in 1928.","why_significant":"The building is presented as a good example of Classical Revival commercial architecture executed in Indiana limestone and brick. It originally housed a bank and keeps notable interior features, including a 1905 Mosler vault and original hand-operated elevators. The truncated text does not state the formal criteria or period of significance.","narrative":"Rising five stories in the center of downtown Danville, Illinois, this Classical Revival commercial building at 139-141 North Vermilion Street was built in 1905 by local real estate developer William M. Bridgett. It began as four stories and housed a bank on the ground floor; two Danville newspapermen, William J. Parrett and John H. Harrison, added the fifth story in 1928. The west facade is faced in Indiana limestone, with Doric pilasters and columns, a full entablature, rusticated cream brick piers and stone-trimmed upper windows. Side and rear walls are red paving brick. Inside, the former banking room has been partitioned and its ceiling dropped, yet six Ionic columns, a 1905 Mosler vault with its time-lock door, and a copper and bronze paneled wall remain. Marble walls, terrazzo floors, a metal staircase and original hand-operated elevators also survive. These features, along with its prominence among Danville's taller historic commercial buildings, underlie its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William M. Bridgett (builder/developer); fifth story added in 1928 by William J. Parrett and John H. Harrison","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently used for commerce and medical offices; the first-story banking room has been subdivided and altered, but the vault and other original features survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.043565-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/8942/28894217/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/00001337.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001337/d0561077e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001337/d0561077e6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_of_the_Adams_Building_in_Danville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_of_the_Adams_Building_in_Danville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894217","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Building_(Danville,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16825375"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/vermilion-county/adams-building-00001337/"}