White Hall Historic District

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.