300 South Broadway Avenue

The Lincoln Square Mall and Urbana Lincoln Hotel are considered to have national historic significance because of their close ties to community planning and development in downtown Urbana.  Lincoln Square was the first downstate enclosed shopping mall and only the second enclosed mall in Illinois.  The architect, Victor Gruen, is nationally significant for his mall designs, concepts and urban planning in the 1960s.  Gruen specifically integrated the existing historic hotel into the shopping mall’s design.  The Urbana Lincoln Hotel was designed by Joseph Royer.  The buildings were built by Almon W. Stoolman (hotel) and George Fuller (mall).  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2006 for significance in  (#6000778).  Also known as Historic Lincoln Hotel and New Lincoln Square Village.