Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
“The Union Trust Bank Company Building is a historic bank building at 200 Collinsville Avenue in downtown East St.”
Wikipedia article Union Trust Bank Company Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for St. Clair County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on East St. Louis Township in Centennial, McKendree College, with St. Clair County History, published 1928 names East St. Louis. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In 1841 Capt. John Trendley, John Cames, Esq., and their neighbors in lUinois Town, now East St. Louis,'started a subscription hst to raise a fund for building a school house and hiring a teacher. $175.00 was subscribed, a carpenter was employed at $1.75 per day to erect a house. The site of this building was on the pubhc square in Illinois Town, afterwards the first ward of East St. Louis. This was a frame building 14 by 16 feet in size. It had room for two short rows of benches, a small desk for the teacher and a place for the water bucket and broom. The first pedagogue who presented himself was hired. No questions were asked as to his preparation or ability as a teacher. He was expected to keep the children out of mischief for six months of the year, including the winter season.
Passage source: Centennial, McKendree College, with St. Clair County History, published 1928.
In 1859 Illinois Town was incorporated. In the spring of 1861 a new charter was granted, increasing the boundaries of the town and an election was held for or against changing the name to East St. Louis. This election resulted in 183 in favor of the change and 89 against.
Passage source: Centennial, McKendree College, with St. Clair County History, published 1928.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on East St. Louis Township - 9,003 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Union Trust Bank Company Building between 2009 and 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 March 2014 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CBHALWACHS |
| 21 March 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BHALWACHS |
| 19 March 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HALWACHS |
| 13 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GREEN |
| 26 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DELMAR |
| 5 December 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | I64 M9.5 |
| 17 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 79TH |
| 9 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | FOREST |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Union Trust Bank Company Building: 33 past producers, 2 plants, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget Smelter | Copper | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery | Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Plant | ||
| Hypothetical Lead Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Madison Plant | Thorium | Producer | ||
| Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments | Iron | Producer | ||
| Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co Quarry 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 3 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bowdirns Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Carl's Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Carlins Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Downtown East St. Louis Historic District | under 500 feet | 2014 |
 | Majestic Theatre | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Spivey Building | under 500 feet | 2002 |
 | Broadview Hotel | under 500 feet | 2013 |
 | United States Post Office and Courthouse | 0.3 miles | 2014 |
 | Pennsylvania Avenue Historic District | 0.8 miles | 1979 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000255 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| St. Clair County | All 27 listed properties in this county. |
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