Watterson Towers
Watterson Towers is a student residence hall at Illinois State University, and is said by the university to be one of the tallest dormitory buildings in the world at 298.5 ft.- Type: Bus stop
- Description: residence hall at Illinois State University
- Also known as: “Watterson Residence Hall”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Normal Theater and Uptown Station.
Normal Theater
Movie theater
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The Normal Theater, also known as the Normal Theatre, is a cinema located in the downtown area of Normal, Illinois of the United States of America, which is located in McLean County. Normal Theater is situated 390 feet east of Watterson Towers.
Uptown Station
Railway station
Photo: Bohao Zhao, CC BY 3.0.
Uptown Station is an intermodal transportation center in Normal, Illinois, United States. It is served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system, and is the major intercity rail station in north-central Illinois. Uptown Station is situated 960 feet east of Watterson Towers.
John W. Cook Hall
University building
Photo: Appraiser, CC BY-SA 3.0.
John W. Cook Hall, or Cook Hall, is a building that resembles a castle on the Quad of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Cook Hall, named for the university's fourth president, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since the winter of 1986. John W. Cook Hall is situated 1,200 feet west of Watterson Towers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Normal and Cedar Crest Addition Historic District.
Normal
Town
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 52,736 at the 2020 census. Normal is the smaller of two principal cities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and is Illinois's seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area.
Cedar Crest Addition Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Appraiser, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cedar Crest Addition Historic District is a residential subdivision and historic district in Normal, Illinois. The subdivision is bounded roughly by Division Street to the south, Highland Avenue to the north, Fell Avenue to the west, and a local recreation trail, the Constitution Trail, to the east.
White Place Historic District
Neighborhood
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The White Place Historic District is a residential historic district in Bloomington, Illinois. The district includes houses on White Place, North Clinton Boulevard, and the east side of Fell Avenue bordered to the south by Empire Street and Emerson Street to the north.
Watterson Towers
- Categories: university dormitory and transportation
- Location: Normal Township, McLean, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.50937° or 40° 30′ 34″ northLongitude
-88.98788° or 88° 59′ 16″ westElevation
778 feet (237 metres)Operator
Connect TransitNetwork
Connect TransitOpen location code
86GHG256+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 13918482851OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platformGeoNames ID
4915716Wikidata ID
Q7974952
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