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Evansville Gas & Electric Light Co

Evansville Gas & Electric Light Co

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Evansville Gas & Electric Light Co

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a.k.a. Skora Building

101-103 NW 2nd St., 124-6 Upper 2nd
Evansville, IN

Quick Timeline

1911 Skora Building is erected
2006 Building is razed

Location

North corner of 2nd and Sycamore
District: Downtown
Latitude: 37.971573880815
Longitude: -87.573738098145
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Architecture

Style: No Style Listed
Architect: Wills,James G.


History


Comments

When the previous structure burned Feb 1911, owner Philip Skora soon began plans to erect a new building. built 1911-3 for evansville gas & electric light co lst offices missouri valley bridge & iron co painted limestone commercial building erected for predecessor to sigeco james willis architect renaissance revival 1940 vacant red wing frontier moves in http://local.evpl.org/views/viewimage.asp?ID=933564 skora http://local.evpl.org/views/viewimage.asp?ID=924228 razed jan 06 http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:EVCB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=10E59998918D7050&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0F92E9E8E118A68E http://www.historiclandmarks.org/noted/endangered/endangered1203.html razed


See also

HistoricEvansville.com: Businesses / Commercial
HistoricEvansville.com: Downtown district

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