Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium is a Chautauqua auditorium located in Manners Park in Taylorville, Illinois. The auditorium was built in 1916 to house Chautauqua assemblies in Taylorville.”
Wikipedia article Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Christian County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Manners Park, Taylorville, 62568
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Township. Taylorville township
National Register reference number. 87002519 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

23,957 words

This property stands in Taylorville Township. History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Taylorville Township - 23,957 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Christian Cty Hwy Dept	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Taylorville City Eng	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Christian County

Storms near this property

60 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylorville, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 40 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	1 hurt, $75,000	Several trees and large tree limbs were blown down in a campground just west of the Lake Taylorville Dam. One person suffered a severe head injury when a falling limb struck them while they sheltered in a tent. In addition, 3 RVs and a car were damaged by tree branches. About one half mile northeast of the campground, falling tree limbs damaged the roof of a house.
April 2006	Tornado (F1)	Taylorville	1 hurt	The tornado damaged sheds and downed numerous trees along its path. Several homes and businesses in Taylorville reported roof and structural damage. There was one injury (direct) due to falling debris.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$110,000	Downburst winds caused widespread damage in and around the town of Taylorville. A brick outbuilding was blown down and an equipment storage shed lost part of its roof. A house lost a portion of its roof and an aluminum shed was blown into another house. Numerous trees were blown down or snapped off, with several homes sustaining damage from falling trees. One person was injured when a tree fell on their vehicle.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$75,000	The siding was ripped off buildings on Cherokee Street.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Taylorville	$60,000	A tornado touched down 4 miles southwest of Morrisonville at 530 PM CST. It traveled eastward, knocking down several power poles along Rt. 48. The tornado then tore the roof off a hog pen, collapsed the north doors of a large metal farm building, and destroyed a small barn before dissipating 3 miles south of Morrisonville at 532 PM CST.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$50,000	Several mature trees were uprooted and 2 houses were damaged.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$50,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Taylorville, causing widespread power outages.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$40,000	Twenty power poles were blown down just south of Taylorville.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$40,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Three miles southeast of Taylorville a cinder block building was blown over onto Highway 29. In Assumption, a couple of buildings sustained moderate damage. One of the buildings lost its roof. Damage was estimated around $40,000.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$35,000	Trees, tree limbs, and power lines were blown down along Lincoln Trail Road just west of 1600 East Road.
July 2008	Lightning	Taylorville	$35,000	Lightning struck an oil storage facility destroying three oil tanks and their contents. There were no injuries.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$30,000	Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down in Taylorville. One residence sustained damage to a garage as a tree fell onto it.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$25,000	A small machine shed was destroyed near Taylorville.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$20,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down between Taylorville and Assumption.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$15,000	Several tree branches were blown down in Taylorville, including one that temporarily blocked Route 29 just northwest of town.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$12,000	Power lines were blown down just south of Taylorville.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$10,000	Sheet metal was blown onto the road and damage occurred to a few trees.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$10,000	A large tree and a few power lines were blown down.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$8,000	Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$5,000	A few trees were blown down northeast of Taylorville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto a powerline.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	$2,000	A tree was blown down in Taylorville.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	A large tree was snapped at the base.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several trees were blown down, including some that fell onto houses. Two barns were destroyed.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several tree branches were blown down on North Silver Street.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	A large tree was blown down at Memorial School.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Taylorville	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage was reported.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Taylorville	-	Heavy rains caused flooding across many roads in Taylorville.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	An empty semi trailer was blown over and part of the roof was torn off a house.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Numerous large trees blown down.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Taylorville	-	The tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage was reported.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Taylorville	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No injuries or damage were reported.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	A few power lines down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several power lines were blown down, as well as a large tree.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several power lines were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Numerous trees were blown down as well as power poles and power lines. Several of the trees fell onto houses in Taylorville causing minor to moderate damage. No injuries were reported.
April 2002	Flash Flood	Taylorville	-	Heavy rains caused several roads on the west side of Taylorville to become flooded for a brief time, including an underpass. No structural damage or injuries were reported due to the flooding.
May 2002	Hail	Taylorville	-	Several roofs in Palmer sustained hail damage.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several power lines and trees were blown down in Taylorville.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	A large tree was blown down onto a house in Taylorville, causing minor damage.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several power lines were blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Numerous power lines were blown down as well as several large trees at a local park and cemetery.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Several power lines were blown down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several sections of an 8-foot-tall wooden fencing in Taylorville.
March 2026	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
March 2021	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed
March 2021	Hail	Taylorville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian County

Map coverage status

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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

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
	Taylorville Courthouse Square Historic District	0.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002519 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Christian County	All 5 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.