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Jacksonville Labor Temple

Coordinates: 39°43′58″N 90°13′41″W / 39.73278°N 90.22806°W / 39.73278; -90.22806
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Jacksonville Labor Temple
Jacksonville Labor Temple is located in Illinois
Jacksonville Labor Temple
Jacksonville Labor Temple is located in the United States
Jacksonville Labor Temple
Location228 S. Mauvaisterre St., Jacksonville, Illinois
Coordinates39°43′58″N 90°13′41″W / 39.73278°N 90.22806°W / 39.73278; -90.22806
Arealess than one acre
Built1904 (1904)
Built byJacksonville Trades & Labor Assembly
NRHP reference No.80004524[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 13, 1980

The Jacksonville Labor Temple is a historic building located at 228 South Mauvaisterre Street in Jacksonville, Illinois. The Jacksonville Trades and Labor Assembly, an organization of Jacksonville labor union members formed in 1892, constructed the building in 1904 to serve as its meeting house. Union construction workers volunteered to build the building, while its remaining costs were funded by a tax on the other unions. The building was the third labor temple built in the United States, after buildings in Los Angeles and Belleville, Illinois. Jacksonville's unions have held their meetings in the building since its construction, and it is now the oldest labor temple which is still in use.[2]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1980.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Power, John Robert (January 24, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Jacksonville Labor Temple" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.