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The Bicentennial Art Center is housed in a historic mansion that has been turned into an art gallery with rotating displays, featuring noted Midwest artists, local shows and a permanent collection. The works of Alice Baber are included in our permanent collection.

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Edgar County Historical Society

Compare pioneer and Victorian lifestyle when you visit the log cabin and brick Italianate home. An exhibition gallery and program space in an adjacent building features rotating exhibits of the society'

Paris, IL Museums

Vance Park

Opposite the art center and adjcent to City Hall, Vance Park is an extensively landscaped sunken garden featuring a serpentine brick wall from Thomas Jefferson's design at Charlottesville and lions'

Paris, IL Gardens


Indian Treaty Site

A marker commemorates where two important trails intersected on the prairie - Detroit to St Louis and Peoria to Terre Haute. In 1765

Paris, IL Historic Sites

English Farm

As you drive by this farm, your eye is drawn upward to a towering brick structure near the modern brick home. The building, erected around 1913

Paris, IL Historic Buildings

Things to do near Paris, IL

Fairbury Echoes Museum

The Fairbury Echoes Museum features a Fairbury room and exhibits that change periodically. ...

Historic Route 66

Built in the 1920's, Route 66, also known as "The Mother Road," brought many people through Dwight on their way west looking ...

Hickory Point Golf Course

Course Access: PublicHoles: 18Reserve Advance Tee Times: 7 days...

Lake Shore Golf Course

Course Access: PublicHoles: 18Reserve Advance Tee Times: 6 days...

Illinois Amish Interpretive Center

The first museum in Illinois dedicated to the Amish culture. Traces the history of the Amish religion and provides an extensi...