{"nrhp_refnum":"86003145","name":"White Hall Historic District","other_names":["See Also:White Hall Foundry"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Bridgeport, Jacksonville, Ayers, and Main Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Hall","county":"Greene County","state":"IL","lat":39.43746696300005,"lon":-90.40314087184439,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown commercial historic district in White Hall, Greene County, Illinois, covering two blocks of Main Street plus a park, library, post office and old foundry building on Jacksonville Street. It holds 38 structures, mostly built in the 1870s.","why_significant":"The district is the intact central business district of White Hall, with load-bearing masonry storefronts from the 1870s and later buildings from about 1910-1920. Despite storefront remodeling, the massing and proportions of the buildings remain. The form gives 1870-1937 as the period of significance, and 32 of the 38 structures contribute to it.","narrative":"White Hall's historic district covers the town's central business district: two blocks of Main Street between Bridgeport and Ayers/Franklin Streets, plus Whiteside Park, the library, the post office and the old White Hall Foundry along Jacksonville Street. Of 38 structures, 32 contribute to the district. Most are one- and two-story load-bearing brick buildings from the 1870s, with others from about 1910 to 1920 and a few built after World War II. Styles include Italianate commercial blocks such as the Masonic Hall and Union Hall, Eastlake storefronts, and Prairie-influenced buildings of tapestry brick. Cast iron columns, corbeled brick cornices and metal-bracketed awnings recur along the street. Storefronts have often been remodeled and windows reduced, but the massing and proportions remain. The district is ringed by houses, which gives it clear edges, and it has no outlying shopping strips. Its period of significance runs from 1870 to 1937.","period_of_significance":"1870-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Commercial Italianate, Eastlake, and Prairie-style commercial buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Main Street is described as the busiest street in town and still the center of town. Many buildings are altered, and several are vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.402476-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/8929/28892917/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86003145.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003145/739f26b99f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003145/739f26b99f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_117_Main_Street,_White_Hall.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_117_Main_Street,_White_Hall.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892917","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159246"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/greene-county/white-hall-historic-district-86003145/"}