1-8 Buena Vista Court

Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival
The court consists of eight Spanish Mission style cottages, built circa 1925, that face a central courtyard.  The architectural style, while common in California and the American southwest, is unusual in the Midwest.  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 2000 for significance in Architecture (#00000681).  Also listed as a Local Landmark on July 1, 2004.  West Elm Court is the original historic name because its primary entrance fronted on Elm Street.  Also known as Buena Vista Court.

505 West Main Street

Italianate architectural style
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1978  for significance in Architecture, Transportation, Politics  (#78001116). 

207 West Elm Street (razed 6-20-1999, removed from NRHP 3-14-02)

Italianate architectural style

Built by John Paten for Judge Ater.  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1996 for significance in Architecture/Engineering, and association with a Person (Ater) (#96000855).  For more information, please visit the listing for the Ater-Jaques House under Buildings Lost.

715 West Michigan Avenue

Tudor Revival architectural style

Designed by Joseph W. Royer.  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1989 for significance in Education and Architecture (#89001110; part of Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana-Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois Multiple Property nomination).  Also known as the Matthew W. Busey Mansion.

1202 West Nevada Street

French Chateau architectural style

Alpha Delta Pi was built in 1926 in the French Chateau style from the designs of  Berwyn architects, Clare & Coen; Willam H. Clare was a 1913 graduate of the University of Illinois.  The Sigma Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi has been on campus since 1912 and bought the lot in 1921.  The contract for the house was let to Dee Todd of Urbana, who had constructed several other chapter houses on campus.  The addition, on the north, was added in 1953 on the site of the sorority’s annex.  The sorority began as a local group, Alpha Alpha, but petitioned to join the national sorority of Alpha Delta Pi in 1912. 

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 2000 for significance in Education and Architecture (#1333; part of Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana-Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois Multiple Property nomination).

1111-1115 West Nevada Street, Urbana

Georgian Revival architectural style

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 2003 for significance in Architecture(#2001752).

1108 West Stoughton Street, Urbana

Colonial Revival architectural style

Designed by Rolla A. Fulk, L.H. Provine, and Kissinger.  Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 12, 2001 for significance in Architecture and Engineering (#01000595).

901 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana

Designed by Charles A. Gunn.  Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1986 for significance in Science (#86003155).  Also listed as a National Historic Landmark on December 20, 1989 (#89002466).