Bell Miller Apartments

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Bell Miller Apartments are a historic apartment building located at 835 South Second Street in Springfield, Illinois. The six-flat apartments were built in 1909 by Bell Miller, a local florist branching out into real estate.”
Wikipedia article Bell Miller Apartments, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Sangamon County · listed in 1995 · 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.
Listed as. Miller, Bell, Apartments - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 835 S. Second St., Spingfield, 62704
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. building
Township. Capital township
National Register reference number. 95001242 - 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

9,795 words

This property stands in Capital Township. History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 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 Capital Township - 9,795 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bell Miller Apartments: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. Clay	Clay	Prospect
Springfield Clay Prod.Co.Pitclay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Springfield Pit Solomon Service	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Sangamon County Highway Department	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Springfield City Eng.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Susan Lawrence Dana House	0.2 miles	1974
Hickox Apartments	0.2 miles	1984
Taylor Apartments	0.3 miles	2004
Bressmer-Baker House	0.3 miles	1982
H. P. Boult House	0.3 miles	1982
Vachel Lindsay House	0.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001242 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sangamon County	All 68 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.