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2025

Spring 2025 100th anniversary of Fairy Book by Adelaide D. Royer and Nell Brooker Mayhew

2024

Winter 2024. Richard Bireley and his Royer Residences — History of 802 W. John St.

Summer 2024 Rediscovered Relics form Royer Office — Royer Raney Champaign Elks Auditorium

Spring 2024 Shelford Vivarium


2023

Summer 2023 — Bob Swisher  Linda Lee Lorenz, & Lou Simpson Remembered — History of Norman Apartments

Spring 2023 — The Grand Reopening of the Orpheum Event Space — Three More Houses Designed by Joseph Royer Identified in Urbana — Salvage Notes: One Last Pass at Illini Hall — The Champaign County Plaza Building: A salvage with a view

Winter 2023 — David Monk tribute —  The Van Doren Residence A new local historic landmark in Urbana

2022

Fall 2022 – History of the Heritage Awards – The PACA Warehouse, preservation vs salvage – Map into Art contest – New Member benefit

Summer 2022 – The Ship of Theseus – A Tale of Two Buildings

Spring 2022 – PACA’s annual meeting (2021 in review) – An Avenue of Immigrants

Winter 2021/22 – What does PACA do? – In Small Things Forgotten – 

2021

Vol 41 No 1 Strategic Plan – Overlooked Architectural Details in Historic Buildings – Endangered Colonel Wolfe School

2020

Vol 40 No 1 504 West Elm, Urbana Freeman & Busey House 

Vol 40 No 2 Heritage Awards

2019

Vol 39 No 1 Captain Edward Bailey House – An American Home Film Screening

Vol 39 No 2 Washington & Hill Street Neighborhood Tour – SWOT Results – Art Theater Certificate of Appropriateness

Vol 39 No 3 412 West Elm, Urbana Vickery and Sharp House 

2018

Vol 38 No 1 Solon House – Colonel Wolfe School – Annual Meeting

Vol 38 No 2 Burnham Mansion – Busey, Royer, & WWI – Huber’s

Vol 38 No 3 Annual Salvage Review – Heritage Awards

2017

Vol 37 No 1  Annual PACA Salvage Review – (incorrectly numbered Vol 38 No 3)

Vol 37 No 2  Preservation Month Activities

Vol 37 No 3  Central High School Expansion – Old Town Zoning

2016

Vol 36 No 1  Victor E Shelford Vivarium

Vol 36 No 2  School Referendum – Burnham House – (incorrectly numbered Vol 37 No 1) 

2015

Vol 35 No 1  Saving our Schools

Vol 35 No 2  Lincoln Hall War Memorial Fountain and Courtyard

Vol 35 No 3  David Phillippe Mansion – Historic Preservation Conference 2015

Vol 35 No 4  Champaign Country Historical Museum – Salvage Report

Vol 35 No 5  Hubert Smith, Urbana’s Forgotten Architect – Champaign Schools

2014

Vol 34 No 1 & 2  Leavitt Manufacturing Company

Vol 34 No 3 & 4  Membership Changes

2013

Vol 33 No 1  Urbana’s 100 Most Important Buildings Part II – Urbana’s Statewide Preservation Award

Vol 33 No 2  Champaign Urbana Streetcar Worker Strikes – Altgeld Hall 

Vol 33 No 3  Mark Chenail Tribute

Vol 33 No 4  PACA and the University of Illinois

2012

Vol 32 No 1  Homer’s Historic First Street with PACA Pavers – C R Griggs House

Vol 32 No 3 & 4  Solon House Report – Urbana’s 100 Most Important Buildings – Urbana National Guard Armory

2011

Vol 31 No 1  First Christian Church in Urbana

Vol 31 No 2  PACA Lifetime Achievement Awards 

2010

Vol 30 No 1  Salvage Highlights 2009 – Volunteer spotlight Mark Bush

Vol 30 No 2  Vintage Photograph Mysteries – Volunteer Spotlight Benny and Lori Dow

Vol 30 No 3  CU Poor Farm Turns 100 – Lincoln Hall Salvage

2009

Vol 29 No 1  Mumford House

Vol 29 No 2  The Truth About Windows – 2009 Heritage Awards – Volunteer Spotlight Elisabeth Jenicek

Vol 29 No 3  Gothic Stone – 2009 Ten Most Endangered Places – Volunteer Spotlight Betty Swisher

Vol 29 No 4  Eli Halberstadt House – Volunteer Spotlight Mike Miller – Gothic Stone Update

Vol 29 No 5  Boyle House – Lutz House

Vol 29 No 6  Castles in the Air: Three Unbuilt Projects – Volunteer spotlight Mark Chenail

2008

Vol 28 No 1  2008 Salvage Synopsis – Local School Architecture

Vol 28 No 2  N H Cohen’s Forgotten Urbana Post Office

Vol 28 No 3  What used to be at . . . 931 Green St Urbana

Vol 28 No 4  What used to be at . . . 712 N Neil, The St James Hotel

Vol 28 No 5  Loss of the Bailey-Rugg Building

Vol 28 No 6  Christmas Fire of 1904 – Mumford House

2007

Vol 27 No 1  2006 Salvage Report – Buena Vista Court 

Vol 27 No 2  Making Preservation Work – Sidewalk Brick Project

Vol 27 No 3  Historic Building Art Contest 

Vol 27 No 4  Sears Barns

Vol 27 No 5  Solon Open House

Vol 27 No 6  Simply Monumental – Historic Preservation Education

2006

Vol 26 No 1  Historic Schools

Vol 26 No 2  U of I Beef Barn – PACA’s 25th Anniversary Celebration

Vol 26 No 3  U of I Hillel Foundation – Clock Tower Update – What is historic integrity?

Vol 26 No 4  Busey-Evans Hall

Vol 26 No 5  Historic West Urbana – Fall House Tour 

Vol 26 No 6  Solon House Update – Stroll through Historic West Urbana (cont)

2005

Vol 25 No 1  11th Annual Salvage Report

Vol 25 No 2  2005 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places List – 2005 Heritage Awards

Vol 25 No 3  Homestead Preservation in Atwood – Funk Prairie Home

Vol 25 No 4  Hurricane Katrina and Preserving Historic Buildings – Metal Window Workshop

Vol 25 No 5  Historic Schools The Endangered Heritage in Your Community

Vol 25 No 6  Solon House donation – Historic Schools Part II

2004

Vol 24 No 1  Tenth Annual Salvage Report 

Vol 24 No 2  Clock Tower Restoration Project – Salvaging the Pepsin Building

Vol 24 No 3  Taft’s Lincoln the Lawyer Statue – UIUC Sheep Barn

Vol 24 No 4  Fall Cemetery Tour – Heritage Grants 

Vol 24 No 5  Mount Hope Cemetery Tour

Vol 24 No 6  U of I Sheep Barn

2003

Vol 23 No 1 2003 Salvage Report – Historic Districts

Vol 23 No 2  Preservation Week – Early American Museum 

Vol 23 No 3 & 4  Kit and Precut Homes 

Vol 23 No 5  Historic Architecture and Archaeology Geographic Information System 

Vol 23 No 6  National Register of Historic Places

2002

Vol 22 No 1  2002 Salvage Report

Vol 22 No 2  Preservation Week – Top Ten Endangered Buildings

Vol 22 No 3  Coca Cola Bottling Plant – Lead Paint Safety Workshop

Vol 22 No 4  Sesquicentennial Neighborhood House Tour 

Vol 22 No 5  Twentieth Anniversary Booklet – Lachlan Blair Scholarship 

Vol 22 No 6  Bailey Rugg Building

2001

Vol 21 No 1  Annual Salvage Report – Creative Uses of Architectural Salvage Items

Vol 21 No 2  States 10 Most Endangered List – Preservation Week

Vol 21 No 3  Gothic Revival Cottage – Urbana Preservation – Lead Paint Seminar – Ricker House Sale

Vol 21 No 4  Lachlan Blair Memorial – Lindley House

Vol 21 No 5  Hazen Bridge Sign Dedication – PACA Receives Preservation Award 

Vol 21 No 6  Royer Historic District

2000

Vol 20 No 1  1999 Salvage Report

Vol 20 No 2  Preservation Week 2000 – 2000 Heritage Awards

Vol 20 No 3  Heritage Grants – ArchiTreasures Winners – Urbana Designates Landmarks 

Vol 20 No 4  National Preservation Conference 2000 – Villard Court 

Vol 20 No 5  Ricker House Renovation

Vol 20 No 6  Alpha Rho Chi

1999

Vol 19 No 1  1998 Salvage Report – Historic Barn tour

Vol 19 No 2  Preservation Week 1999 – Pepsin Factory

Vol 19 No 3  Carrie Busy House Lost – Ater Jacques House Lost

Vol 19 No 4  Thomas Franks House 

Vol 19 No 5  Champaign County Sheriff’s Residence

Vol 19 No 6  Champaign’s Street Lights 

1998

Vol 18 No 1  Levi Wood House Obituary – Salvage Warehouse FAQ

Vol 18 No 2  Preservation Week

Vol 18 No 3  Harwood Solon House – Carrie Busey Home Available for Relocation

Vol 18 No 4  Women’s Town Club 

Vol 18 No 5  New Salvage Warehouse Purchased – Salem Baptist Landmark

Vol 18 No 6  Sagamore Building – Ricker House Update

1997

Vol 17 No 1  Salvage Warehouse

Vol 17 No 2  Preservation Begins at Home – Ricker House Grant – Ater Jaques House – Cahokia

Vol 17 No 3  Cohen Building

Vol 17 No 4  Champaign’s Masonic Temple

Vol 17 No 5  Champaign County Courthouse

Vol 17 No 6  201 N Market St

1996

Vol 16 No 1  1995 Salvage Warehouse Highlights – Jaques House Update

Vol 16 No 2  Walker Opera House

Vol 16 No 3  PACA Purchases the Ricker House 

Vol 16 No 4  Ater-Jaques House

Vol 16 No 5  Ater-Jaques House Part II

Vol 16 No 6  Lincoln Building

1995

Vol 15 No 1  Salvage Warehouse – The Color Doctor

Vol 15 No 2  Preservation Week – Varsity Theatre 

Vol 15 No 3  Forbes House – Historic Sidewalks

Vol 15 No 4  Harris Mansion 

Vol 15 No 5  Champaign’s Sesquicentennial Neighborhood 

Vol 15 No 6  Smith Memorial Hall 

1994

Vol 14 No 1  Construction and Demolition Waste – Urbana’s Mixed Office Residential Zoning District

Vol 14 No 2  Hazen Bridge National Register Nomination – Heritage Grant Program Begins

Vol 14 No 3  Sandblasting Primer – Endangered Building List 

Vol 14 No 4  Homer Opera House – Orpheum, Preservation Success Story – Forbes House Update

Vol 14 No 5  Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing 

Vol 14 No 6  Artificial Siding – Hoop Dreams Benefit – Preserving the Recent Past

1993

Vol 13 No 1  Early Opera Houses – ISTEA and Preservation

Vol 13 No 2  1993 Illiois Preservaton Conference – Illinois Theatre 

Vol 13 No 3  University President’s Homes 

Vol 13 No 4  University President’s Homes Part II – Forbes House

Vol 13 No 5  Clinging Plants and Historic Buildings – History in Postcards and History from the Heart 

Vol 13 No 6  University Round Barns 

1992

Vol 12 No 1  Virginia Theatre – Engineering Campus

Vol 12 No 2  Urbana-Champaign Carpenters, Contractors, and Builders, 1850-1900 – Virginia Theatre

Vol 12 No 3 Urbana-Champaign Carpenters, Contractors, and Builders, 1850-1900 – Kids Building Fair – Scott-Dallahon House

Vol 12 No 4  Art Theater – Preservation Symposium – Patton Woods Nature Preserve

Vol 12 No 5  Lead Paint Removal 

Vol 12 No 6  Ivesdale

1991

Vol 11 No 1  Railroad Station 

Vol 11 No 2  National Historic Preservation Week 

Vol 11 No 3  Dana House – Orpheum Update – Historic Barn

Vol 11 No 4  Hazen Bridge Acquisition – Channing Murray 

Vol 11 No 5  UI Woodshed, Endangered Building – Aeronautical Lab B – Orpheum Facade

Vol 11 No 6  Stephen Forbes House 

1990

Vol 10 No 1  Urbana’s Ornamental Street Lights – National Citizens Lobby for Historic Preservation

Vol 10 No 2  Historic Preservation Week – 1990 Illinois Preservation Conference – Leal School Architectural Project – Orpheum Update

Vol 10 No 3  The Levi Wood House – America’s Heritage in Champaign County 

Vol 10 No 4  Orpheum Preservation Project – Alpha XI Delta House

Vol 10 No 5  1991 Heritage Awards Nominations – Archaeological Artifacts – Architectural Terms

Vol 10 No 6  William Springer Building – Scott House Move 

1989

Vol 9 No 1  Tax Checkoff for Illinois Preservation – National Building Museum 

Vol 9 No 2  Preservation Week 1989 – Warehouse Party – State Preservation Conference

Vol 9 No 3  Orpheum Theater Endangered – Church Tour – Financing Restoration

Vol 9 No 4  Orpheum Preservation Project – Inman Hotel – Cohen House Move 

Vol 9 No 5  Log House – National Register News – 1990 Heritage Awards Nominations 

Vol 9 No 6  Mumford House 

1988

Vol 8 No 1  Champaign Zoning Study 

Vol 8 No 2  Champaign Zoning Study Part Two – Statewide Preservation Conference

Vol 8 No 3  Holland Apts Danville – Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois 

Vol 8 No 4  Greek Revival Cottage Wins Governor’s Hometown Award – PACA Garage Sale (before we had the warehouse) – Natural History Building 

Vol 8 No 5  “Come to Quincy! and the Mississippi River Towns of Illinois” – 1988 Heritage Awards Winners – Delmont Village, Urbana

Vol 8 No 6  Cohen House – ‘The Right to Own Property’ – Researching the History of Your Home

1987

Vol 7 No 1  Sears Mail Order Houses

Vol 7 No 2  Landmarks of Democracy – Homer Illinois – Campbell Center for Historic Preservation

Vol 7 No 3  Vermilion Academy – Barn Again Project

Vol 7 No 4  The Military Drill Hall (Kenny Gym Annex) 

Vol 7 No 5  1988 Heritage Awards – 212 E University Ch – 305 N 2nd Tolono, Downtown Streetscape, Urbana – 1110 Davidson Dr, Ch – 710 W University, Ch – 301 W Oregon, Urbana – 604 E Elm, Urbana – Alpha Xi Sorority, Urbana – Masonic Temple Bldg, Urbana – Canaan Baptist Church, Urbana

Vol 7 No 6  Mahomet Grade School

1986

Vol 6 No 1  Stony Creek Bridge – Danville Grand Opera House – Railroad and Prairie Preservation

Vol 6 No 2  Preservation Week – National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 

Vol 6 No 3  Lustron House – University Building Boom

Vol 6 No 4  West Main St. Urbana – Campus Survey – Lustron House Pt II

Vol 6 No 5  Greek Revival Cottage – Heritage Awards

Vol 6 No 6  U of I Observatory – The Society for Commercial Archeology

1985

Vol 5 No 1  Grand Prairie Friends – Architect in Residence Program

Vol 5 No 2  Sim’s House – Main St Revitalization – 1985 Illinois Preservation Conference

Vol 5 No 3  How to Deal with Contractors and Architects – State Tax Benefits

Vol 5 No 4  Sims House – Prairie Conference – Hoopes-Cunningham Mansion

Vol 5 No 5  Heritage Award – Carle Pavilion – Solon House – Holy Cross Church – Wee-Haven – Illinois Traction Station – Clifford Mills

Vol 5 No 6  Downtown Champaign (Christie Expansion) – Greek Revival Cottage

1984

Vol 4 No 1  Lecture Series ‘The Victorian House’ – Preservation Week

Vol 4 No 2  National Trust

Vol 4 No 3  Urbana High School – Kaufman Building – Christie Clinic – Downtown Champaign Survey

Vol 4 No 4  Urbana Facade Design Program

Vol 4 No 5  Christie Clinic

Vol 4 No 6  Cattle Bank

1983

Vol 3 No 1  Rantoul’s Little House

Vol 3 No 2  Historic Preservation Week – PACA Annual Meeting 

Vol 3 No 3  Look Up Main St – Urbana Sesquicentennial – Round Barn

Vol 3 No 4  Trolley

Vol 3 No 5  Annual Meeting – Illinois Register – Heritage Award Program Established

1982

Vol 2 No 1  UCDC Seminar – National Trust – Cattle Bank – Revolving Fund – Executive Director

1981

Vol 1 No 1  Introduction – Cattle Bank – Webber School  – Lorado Taft House