Franklin Square
Franklin Square, or Franklin Park is located in Bloomington, Illinois, McLean County. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Franklin Square contains the homes of former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I and former Governor Joseph W.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include White Building and Robert Greenlee House.
White Building
Heritage site
Photo: IvoShandor, CC BY 2.5.
The White Building, also known as the Heberling Building, is located in the city of Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Located along Bloomington's East Douglas Street, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in June 1994 and represents one of the better examples of Commercial style architecture still extant in the city. White Building is situated 1,400 feet south of Franklin Square.
Robert Greenlee House
House
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The Robert Greenlee House is a historic house located at 806 N. Evans St. in Bloomington, Illinois. Contractor Robert Greenlee built the house circa 1884 for himself and his family. Robert Greenlee House is situated 770 feet southeast of Franklin Square.
McLean County Museum of History
Museum
Photo: Michael, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The McLean County Museum of History is an AAM accredited institution located in Bloomington, Illinois. It is the principal asset of the McLean County Historical Society, an Illinois nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1892 to study local history. McLean County Museum of History is situated 2,600 feet southwest of Franklin Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include White Place Historic District and Cedar Crest Addition Historic District.
White Place Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: VermillionBird, CC BY 3.0.
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.
Cedar Crest Addition Historic District
Neighborhood
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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.
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. Normal is situated 1½ miles north of Franklin Square.
Franklin Square
- Type: Heritage site
- Description: listed on the NRHP in McLean County, Illinois
- Categories: historic district, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: McLean, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.48626° or 40° 29′ 11″ northLongitude
-88.98991° or 88° 59′ 24″ westOpen location code
86GHF2P6+G2OpenStreetMap ID
way 998627414OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q5491844
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