Francis T. Bacon was the supervising architect of the Illinois Central Railroad system from the mid-1890s until 1907. Bacon died in Chicago on June 18, 1909, at the age of 43, after having been in private practice for two years.

Works

* Union Station, Madison Street, Springfield, Illinois, 1896,

NRHP The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

-listed * Illinois Central Railroad Main Station, Champaign, Illinois, 1898 *Illinois Central Office Building,

Carbondale, Illinois Carbondale is a city in Jackson and Williamson Counties, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the ...

, 1899 * Illinois Central Railroad Station,

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, 1899 * Fort Dodge & Omaha (Illinois Central) Station,

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, 1900 * Fort Dodge & Omaha (Illinois Central) Station,

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, 1900 * Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot, 111 South Illinois Avenue, Carbondale, Illinois, 1903,

-listed * Illinois Central Railroad Van Buren Street Station, Chicago, Illinois * Illinois Central 12th Street Station Annex, Chicago, Illinois * Union Station, Memphis, Tennessee * Illinois Central warehouses, New Orleans, Louisiana

Gallery

File:Springfield Union Station W0446.jpg, Union Station, Springfield, Illinois File:IL Central depot in Carbondale.jpg, Illinois Central Passenger Depot, Carbondale, Illinois

References

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