{"nrhp_refnum":"97001336","name":"Building at 203-205 North Market Street","other_names":["Graphic Press"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"203-205 N. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Champaign","county":"Champaign County","state":"IL","lat":40.117748637000034,"lon":-88.20650728299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate commercial building at 203-205 North Market Street in downtown Champaign, Illinois, built around 1870, with a cast-iron storefront and an adjacent historic limestone sidewalk.","why_significant":"The building is argued to be a good local example of an Italianate commercial building, with its two-story height, rectangular plan, cast-iron storefront, tall round-arched windows and corbeled entablature. It and its companion at 201 North Market are two of only three buildings in Champaign that keep cast-iron storefronts. Its limestone sidewalk is described as unique in Champaign County.","narrative":"Built around 1870 on the west side of North Market Street in downtown Champaign, this two-story brick commercial building follows the Italianate style. Its first floor keeps an original cast-iron storefront with rope columns, fluted pilasters and recessed entries, and the second floor has five tall round-arched windows under a corbeled brick cornice. In front lies a raised limestone sidewalk that is the only one of its type known in Champaign County. The building went up after an 1868 fire destroyed earlier structures on the block. Over the years it housed saloons, a restaurant, a billiards hall, furniture dealers and lodge halls on the upper floor. It shares a party wall with its companion at 201 North Market, and the two are among only three Champaign buildings that retain cast-iron storefronts. Its listing rests on its architecture as a good local example of Italianate commercial design, with a period of significance of circa 1870.","period_of_significance":"c. 1870","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as commerce/trade, with a Graphic Press sign on the storefront; the interior has modern partitions and the rear and north walls were rebuilt around 1915.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.681593-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/8918/28891802/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/97001336.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001336/230a2ce2e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001336/230a2ce2e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0 us","author":"Dori","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphic_Press_Champaign_Illinois_4173.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dori</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0 us</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphic_Press_Champaign_Illinois_4173.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891802","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_203%E2%80%93205_North_Market_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20638862"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/champaign-county/building-at-203-205-north-market-street-97001336/"}