Explore Edgar County
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 BuildingsEdgar County Courthouse
This elegant 1893 brick and stone building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Paris, IL Historic CourthousesHeartland Antique Auto Museum
Walk among early cars from the turn-of-the-century through the early 1950's. This museum is also the site of a restoration shop for classic V12 and V16
Paris, IL MuseumsVance 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 GardensNorth Arm
North Arm is the oldest continuously operating Catholic church in the Springfield diocese. Founded in 1817 by 17 families from Kentucky, the journey was blessed by Fr. Theodore Badin, the first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S. The current church was built in 1901
Paris, IL Historic ChurchesEdgar 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