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' head fountain duplicating the original park features in France.
This elegant 1893 brick and stone building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Paris, IL Historic CourthousesNorth 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 ChurchesAs 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 BuildingsCompare 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 MuseumsAbraham Lincoln's aunt was buried in Ogden County cemetary in 1876
Paris, IL CemeteriesRestored grain elevator listed on the National Historic Register. Free tours....
Farm implements, tools, tractors, and other equipment dating back 100 years are featured. Open for special events....
Quiet, curious, loveable llamas on a working farm....
Watch these yummy dressings being made from the storefront in downtown Historic Palestine, or go in, take a tour and sample i...