Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership

	Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Location in Illinois Location in United States
Location	431 S. Fourth St., Springfield, Illinois
Coordinates	39°47′51″N 89°39′4″W / 39.79750°N 89.65111°W
Area	less than one acre
Architect	Harry Reiger
Architectural style	Early Commercial
NRHP reference No.	06000450
Added to NRHP	May 31, 2006

The Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership is a historic automobile dealership located at 431 South 4th Street in Springfield, Illinois. Ford dealer Frank Jennings built the dealership in 1919. The automobile became widespread in Springfield in the 1910s; Jennings Ford was one of several dealerships to open on South 4th Street, which was then the city's automobile row. The three-story building integrated every major function of an auto dealership at the time; it included a sales floor, a service center, a car wash, a storage garage, and a repainting facility. While Jennings Ford closed between 1927 and 1933, the building remained a car dealership through the 1950s. It is one of the few remaining dealership buildings in downtown Springfield and is the best-preserved of the survivors.^[2] Today, the building houses an operations center for Illinois National Bank.^[3]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 2006.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Gihl, Tom (October 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
^ Schaefer, Marilyn Titone. "Operations Center INB's 21st Century, Electronic Vault". Archived from the original on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2016-11-08.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Gihl, Tom (October 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23. Retrieved January 22, 2015.

[3] Schaefer, Marilyn Titone. "Operations Center INB's 21st Century, Electronic Vault". Archived from the original on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2016-11-08.

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