town Square Assessment

 I found a copy of an assessment of the historical architecture of the Carbondale town square, done back in 1997 when the city was looking at getting the Jackson-Washington area and parts of West Man and south Illinois adjacent to the square placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nothing ever came of the project, as far as I know, and at least 4 of the properties, including the Tuscan Lodge and Dillinger's Feed Store, have been torn down in the past 20 years.

Certainly an intersecting look back at the history of the square. For example, the building at 215 South Illinois, now housing a gym, was built in 1930 for the Yellow Cab Taxi Service as was used for that purpose until Carbondale's Yell Cab Service shut down about a decade or so ago.