Some cool business register images:
Chicago Bee Building (1929)
Image by chicagogeek
NRHP #86001090
3647-55 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith
From Chicago Landmarks Website: "This Art Deco-style building was constructed as the headquarters for the Chicago Bee newspaper, which was founded by noted African-American entrepreneur Anthony Overton. It originally featured upper-floor apartments and, during the 1930's, housed the offices of the Douglass National Bank and the Overton Hygienic Company, a nationally known cosmetics firm. The newspaper went out of business in the 1940s, although Overton Hygienic continued until the early 1980s. In the mid-1990's, the building was adapted for reuse as a branch of the Chicago Public Library. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bee_Building
Vermilion Institute aka Vermillion Academy (restoration planned)
Image by dok1
Driving east from the Hayesville Opera House on the old Lincoln Highway, we saw another structure that's on the National Register of Historic Places.
From the institute's web site I leaned: "The Vermillion Institute was chartered by the Ohio Legislature on March 4, 1845 and rose quickly to become one of the largest and most prominent institutions of higher learning in the nation, educating distinguished jurists, two U.S. Senators, three Congressmen and others prominent in business and education. The Institute's principal building survives as a National Register-listed brick Greek Revival landmark, a prominent structure in Hayesville, Ohio, Ashland County.
In the comment is the planned exterior restoration rendering, detailed at: www.vermillioninstituteohio.org/
