{"nrhp_refnum":"82002593","name":"Peoria Mineral Springs","other_names":["Spring Hill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"701 W. 7th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peoria","county":"Peoria County","state":"IL","lat":40.69582730900004,"lon":-89.60502632099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small historic site on Peoria's West Bluff in Peoria, Illinois, at 701 West Seventh Avenue. It includes a brick spring reservoir built about 1843, the Zealy Moss house built about 1843-45, and an 1886 cobblestone road.","why_significant":"The reservoir captured three mineral springs that served as Peoria's first public water supply for about 15 years, from a charter granted in 1843. The Moss house contains the original bottling room where spring water was bottled and sold, and it was once home to Lydia Moss Bradley. The springs still flow and are described as the last link to the area's pre-historic water sources.","narrative":"Peoria Mineral Springs occupies a hillside on the city's West Bluff, where three springs have flowed for thousands of years. Around 1843 a cave-like, barrel-vaulted brick reservoir was built into the slope to capture them for Peoria's first water company, chartered that February. Pipes carried the water roughly two miles, and the springs supplied the city for about 15 years, until a new source near the Illinois River met growing demand. Zealy Moss built a simple two-story brick house nearby around 1843-45, in a plain Federal style. It includes a bottling room where spring water was packaged and sold, and it later housed Lydia Moss Bradley, who founded Bradley University. The house was enlarged twice before 1869. Beside it, an 18-foot-wide cobblestone road, paved in 1886, runs 450 feet up the bluff. The springs still flow and are the last survivor of the area's natural springs.","period_of_significance":"1843-1886","architect_builder":"Zealy Moss","architectural_style":"Simple, severe Federal style, or Post-colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"The springs still flow. The house is occupied and in good condition, though altered, and restoration of porch trim and elements is under way.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.404438-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/8938/28893843/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/82002593.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002593/c8ac1d8884-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002593/c8ac1d8884-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_springs_no_longer_open_to_the_public_on_this_property.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boscophotos</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_springs_no_longer_open_to_the_public_on_this_property.jpeg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76000725","name":"West Bluff Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/west-bluff-historic-district-76000725/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893843","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_Mineral_Springs","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7166148"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/peoria-county/peoria-mineral-springs-82002593/"}