Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium

	Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Manners Park, Taylorville, Illinois
Coordinates	39°32′23″N 89°17′45″W / 39.53972°N 89.29583°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1916
Built by	Decatur Bridge Co.
NRHP reference No.	87002519
Added to NRHP	January 21, 1988

The Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium is a Chautauqua auditorium located in Manners Park in Taylorville, Illinois. The auditorium was built in 1916 to house Chautauqua assemblies in Taylorville. Chautauqua was an adult educational movement which sent lecturers, educators, and musicians to assemblies in towns throughout the country during the early 20th century. In Taylorville, Chautauqua assemblies met eight days each year from 1914 through 1928. Lecturers and entertainers who came to the Chautauqua in Taylorville include William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Billy Sunday, Irvin S. Cobb, Alvin York, Harry Lauder, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.^[2]

The auditorium is a sixteen-sided structure built by the Decatur Bridge Company. An octahedral cupola rests atop the main roof. The roof is mainly supported by triangular steel trusses; its only other supports are a single central post and a ring of posts along the outer edge.^[2]

The auditorium was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1988.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Morgan, Robert (September 28, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2014.

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

[NRHP_nom-2] Morgan, Robert (September 28, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2014.

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Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium
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Location	Manners Park, Taylorville, Illinois
Coordinates	39°32′23″N 89°17′45″W / 39.53972°N 89.29583°W / 39.53972; -89.29583
Area	less than one acre
Built	1916 (1916)
Built by	Decatur Bridge Co.
NRHP reference No.	87002519^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 21, 1988