His first campaign speech was also in Peoria, in 1840, during a Whig rally for Presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. Lincoln was a regular visitor to Peoria, first visiting in 1832 to buy a canoe on the way home to New Salem from serving briefly as a captain the Black Hawk War (his election to this position by the men of his company was among the proudest moments of his life), and he visited many more times throughout his legal and political career. It had grown and changed quite a bit, however, by the time Robert Ingersoll moved here in 1857 and Frederick Douglass spoke here for the first time in 1859. Peoria would have looked like this for most of the years Lincoln visited. Why have we stopped bothering to go on artistic flights of fancy, then directing the inspirations found there towards making these things beautiful?Ĭourthouse Square, Peoria, Illinois, ca. Still, I’m irritated as I so often am with modern architecture and interior design. Perhaps that’s a good thing for my purposes: I fled the room as soon as I could to place myself in a more interesting environment. My term for this sort of accommodation is ‘people storage’: strictly utilitarian, uninspired, and uninspiring.
Now, the rooms and draperies are beige highlighted with rust-orange, furnished with the plainest of midcentury-style designs, angular objects only occasionally relieved by a sleek curve here and there.
For many years, for example, the beds sported these wonderfully colorful blankets printed with stylized images of famous cities and landscapes all over the United States. They were never glamorous, but they now have less character.
I’ve noticed that Motel 6’s are much better than they used to be when I was a child and young adult, at least in terms of cleanliness and amenities. I awake in a spotlessly clean, perfectly comfortable, aggressively unimaginative Motel 6 hotel room on the north end of Peoria, Illinois. Other versions of this sculpture are at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, the Lincoln Tomb, and the Rotunda of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln portrait head, cast of Gutzon Borglum model for Mount Rushmore at Tower Park, Peoria Heights.
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