Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 84000337 Added to NRHP 13 November 1984 | Built 1920 (1920)-1929 Phone +1 217-544-2381 | |
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Location 4th and Cook Sts., Springfield, Illinois Architectural style Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Georgian Revival Address 631 S 4th St, Springfield, IL 62703, USA Similar Lincoln Tower, Lincoln Square Apartments, St Nicholas Apartments, Olde Towne Apartments | ||
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The Hickox Apartments is an historic apartment complex located at the corner of 4th and Cook Streets in Springfield, Illinois. The complex consists of five building units built from 1920 to 1929. The buildings represent three of the five major types of Springfield apartments: two- and three-flat row apartments, detached low-rise apartments with a courtyard, and larger suburban-style apartments with a courtyard. The complex, located near the Illinois Executive Mansion in the Aristocracy Hill neighborhood, was the first apartment complex targeted at upper-middle-class families. While Springfield's apartments had typically been seen as lower-class residences, developer Harris Hickox used lavish amenities, a desirable location, and his own social status to draw wealthier residents to his new complex. Hickox also created an air of exclusivity for his apartments by employing domestic staff and lobby guards and defying the local convention of advertising new apartments. The apartments remained a respected and desirable complex through the 1960s, outlasting most of the other luxury apartments which followed its lead.
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The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984.