"There's a value to collective memory. Every time we bulldoze a neighborhood, we are taking the memories away."

• Joseph P. Riley, Mayor of Charleston, SC
 
   
 
Architectural Quiz - Advanced
Take our all new architectural quiz below. These advanced questions cover detailed architectural features and offer similar selection choices. Remember your answers as the correct answers will be revealed after you submit your quiz. If you can answer 7 or more correct, you are an expert on the architecture of Springfield!
 

Question #1

On what downtown building, designed by famed Boston firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, would you find this stone detailing?
City Building & Market (now the Heritage Center)
Warder Free and Public Library (now the Literacy Center)
Lagonda Club
Bushnell Building
 

Question #2
This building, on the corner of Main and Fountain, was originally called what?
Fairbanks Building
Gotwald Building
King Block
First National Bank Building
 
Question #3
This theater, designed by famed theater architect C. Howard Crane, was owned and operated by _______________?
Oliver S. Kelly
Charles W. Regent
Gus Sun
William S. Barker
 
Question #4

This building, designed by the same firm as Warder Public Library, was built in what year? Hint - They designed the Art Institute of Chicago that same year.
1891
1893
1895
1897
 
Question #5

St. Raphael's Catholic Church was designed by what notable Springfield architect? Hint - This same architect designed almost every Springfield church from 1880 to 1895.
Robert C. Gotwald
Henry Hobson Richardson
Charles A. Cregar
William K. Shilling
 
Question #6

This sculpture, by David Black, adorns the front of what downtown building?
Brinkman Center
Key Bank Building
Performing Arts Center
Springfield Post Office
 

Question #7
This triple-arched window with decorative stone lintels, the design of Charles A. Cregar, is an interpretation of what popular Springfield architectural style?
Eastlake
Richardsonian Romanesque
French Second Empire
Italian Renaissance Revival
 
Question #8

This stone carving of an old man's face is on the entrance to what downtown building. Hint - It also once housed the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.
Warder Free and Public Library (now the Literacy Center)
City Building & Market (now the Heritage Center)
Hotel Shawnee
Lagonda Club
 
Question #9

In what historic neighborhood will you find the building with this wall painting? Hint - Famous Film Actress Lillian Gish was born up the street.
Irish Hill
South Fountain Avenue
Ridgewood
East High Street
 

Question #10
This eighteen foot eagle perches on a downtown building, designed by local architect William K. Shilling, that was built to serve what important community function?
Public Library
City Building
Court House
Post Office
 
 

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