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Camp Lincoln Commissary Building

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Culver Stone Co.

Architectural style
  
Castellated fortress

Added to NRHP
  
13 November 1984

Built
  
1903 (1903)

Architect
  
Hanes, J. S.

Opened
  
1903

Camp Lincoln Commissary Building

Location
  
1301 N. MacArthur Blvd., Springfield, Illinois

Similar
  
Wyndham Springfield City Centre, Executive Mansion, Illinois State Capitol, Lincoln‑Herndon Law Offices State Hist, Oak Ridge Cemetery

The Camp Lincoln Commissary Building is a historic building on the grounds of Camp Lincoln, a National Guard camp in Springfield, Illinois. Built in 1903, the commissary is the oldest building remaining at Camp Lincoln. The camp, which opened in 1886, had previously used tents or temporary buildings for most of its activities, and the commissary soon became the camp's center of activity; it has served as a headquarters, barracks, hospital, and physical examination center at various points. The Culver Stone Company, which constructed several of Springfield's public buildings, built the commissary. The rusticated limestone building is designed to resemble a castle, as it features turrets and battlements along its roof. The building now houses a military museum.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984.

References

Camp Lincoln Commissary Building Wikipedia