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HPC: AMVETS should be historic landmark
From the Journal Star: The Downtown AMVETS building should be considered a historic landmark and preserved for future uses, the city’s historic preservation commission decided this morning. With a 4-2...
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AMVETS finance officer: “It is now time to move on”
The City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to make the AMVETS building an historic landmark. The Historic Preservation Commission is recommending that they do. But it appears that even if the...
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Historic Duroc building doomed
The Peoria City Council denied historic preservation for the AMVETS building, 237 NE Monroe, at tonight’s council meeting. First district councilman Clyde Gulley moved to deny the request, seconded by...
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Name That Peoria Landmark* – Sandy’s Sheridan Road
*With apologies to PeoriaIllinoisan and NTPL. Hint: The building still stands today. Many readers remembered Sandy’s on Sheridan, across the street from Sheridan Village. The building is now occupied...
View ArticleHistoric landmark could be delisted
On the City Council agenda for Tuesday is a request to strip the Roanoke Apartments building of its historic landmark status. The Journal Star reports: Second District City Councilwoman Barbara Van...
View ArticleKenyon one of the few with passion to preserve Peoria’s history
One thing I learned about Peoria growing up is that we care very little for our own history, other than looking at pictures of it. Once something is thirty, forty, or (God forbid) fifty years old, it’s...
View ArticleFurther chilling of historic preservation ordinance on tap (Updated)
The City Council is poised to raise the historic landmark application fee 1000% Tuesday night. While the Historic Preservation Commission approved doubling the fee (from $50 to $100), City Staff wants...
View ArticleGuest Editorial: Peoria’s Song
Editor’s Note: The following editorial was written and submitted by Margaret E. Cousin, Vice-President of the Central Illinois Landmarks Foundation. It was also published as a Spotlight article that...
View ArticleAnother historic property may see wrecking ball
Included in the Peoria City Council’s evisceration of the city’s historic preservation ordinance was a provision that exempts church-owned property from historic preservation. Specifically, the motion...
View ArticleA curious appointment
On the City Council agenda for next Tuesday’s meeting is a curious appointment by Mayor Jim Ardis to the Historic Preservation Commission: Steve Pierz. Pierz used to be the so-called “litter czar” in...
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