{"nrhp_refnum":"06000778","name":"Urbana-Lincoln Hotel-Lincoln Square Mall","other_names":["Historic Lincoln Hotel","New Lincoln Square Village"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 S. Broadway Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Urbana","county":"Champaign County","state":"IL","lat":40.110532502500064,"lon":-88.20706723127788,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-part downtown complex at 300 South Broadway Avenue in Urbana, Illinois: the 1923 Tudor Revival Urbana-Lincoln Hotel, designed by Joseph Royer, and the adjoining 1964 modern Lincoln Square Mall, designed by Victor Gruen.","why_significant":"The complex combines a 1920s hotel with an early downtown pedestrian shopping mall planned by nationally known architect and planner Victor Gruen. The mall's interior plan and exterior retain a high degree of integrity. The mall also served as a civic center and was part of a larger downtown renewal plan.","narrative":"Downtown Urbana's Lincoln Square complex joins two buildings from different eras. The Urbana-Lincoln Hotel, built in 1923 to a design by local architect Joseph Royer, is a four-and-one-half-story Tudor Revival building of dark brick with stucco, half-timbering, a recessed arched entrance and loggia, and a steeply pitched roof with dormers. In 1964 the adjoining Lincoln Square Mall was added from plans by nationally known architect and planner Victor Gruen. Its one- and two-story modern form has light brown brick walls, a steel frame, and entrances on each side oriented to major streets. Nine square blocks of commercial and residential property were cleared for the project, which also included city-owned parking lots planned by Gruen. Although storefronts, cornices and entrances have been altered over time, Gruen's interior plan remains intact. The mall served shopping, civic and cultural purposes and was part of a broader downtown renewal vision. The hotel and mall together are recognized as one contributing building, with the parking lots as a contributing structure.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph Royer (hotel, 1923); Victor Gruen (mall, 1964)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival (hotel); Modern (mall)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both parts remain in use as a hotel and a shopping mall with office space; the hotel interior has been remodeled and the mall exterior updated, including recent tax credit work.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.000303-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/8918/28891836/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/06000778.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000778/74941c73d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000778/74941c73d4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champaign-Urbana_area_IMG_0966.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champaign-Urbana_area_IMG_0966.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100004308","name":"Downtown Urbana Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/downtown-urbana-historic-district-100004308/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891836","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbana-Lincoln_Hotel-Lincoln_Square_Mall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20710822"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/champaign-county/urbana-lincoln-hotel-lincoln-square-mall-06000778/"}