2001-60 DESIGNATING A HISTORIC DISTRICT - MACON PLACE

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,I HASC July 18, 2001 Page Six Ms. Miller reported on award nominations stating that a nomination was submitted to the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois for 447 West Main Street. There is still work to be done on the individual nomination(Rhonda Glidewell)to be submitted to IAHPC. The winners will be announced in August and awards presented at the conference to be held September 13, 14 and 15 in Springfield. Commissioners were urged to attend at least part of the conference. Ms. Miller reported that the RFP for the National Register Nomination was completed and proposals are due back July 30, 2001. The RFP is for a consultant to write the nomination and present it to all the appropriate agencies. Preservation Watch - Downing House in the 2800 block of North Water(approximately) and 904 East CantrelL There were no addresses added to the list of demolition applications. Mrs. Cross provided information on a broken tombstone found by some children in a pile of dirt �, near the construction site of the Blu Phoenix Restaurant. Mrs. Cross stated that she was told I� there had been an old cemetery at this location and the burials were relocated to Greenwood I Cemetery. Mrs. Cross stated that there were several issued involved with relocating burials. She is trying to find where this particular person might have had their burial registered. There are laws protecting grave markers from intentional destruction. The burials at the old King's Cemetery would have been extremely old as a nearby resident's abstract references the cemetery in 1892. Contact should be made with Romano Company and Millikin University just to inform them of the finding of the tombstone. If they would run into something else such are markers or burials then work would have to stop until the area is cleared with the burials being relocated. There was no report on Heritage Network. NWRAPS has a house for sale at 521 West William. Mrs. Potter reported that the Historic Decatur Foundation is still talking with the City staff and the City Council. Mr. Little and Ms. Miller discussed the pillars on Lincoln Place, one of which has fallen. A site visit will be conducted. The next regular scheduled meeting of the Historical and Architectural Sites Commission will be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2001, 4:00 P.M., in the Engineering Conference Room,Third Floor of the Decatur Civic Center. Meeting adjourned at 5:23 P.M.