The Lamoine Hotel is a historic hotel located at 201 North Randolph Street in Macomb,

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. The hotel was built in 1926-27 to be the city's first large modern hotel, a necessity for a city with a busy railroad station and a

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. Architects F.E. Berger and R.L. Kelley of

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designed the

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building; it is the tallest building in downtown Macomb and the most prominent Classical Revival building in the city. In addition to hosting visitors to Macomb, the hotel housed several local businesses and hosted community meetings and the Macomb Chamber of Commerce. The hotel was the city's preferred hotel and community meeting place until the 1950s, when the automobile's rise took away the railroad traffic which gave the hotel much of its business. The hotel became an

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and ultimately closed for good in the following decades; the Macomb Journal later moved into the building's ground floor. The hotel was added to the

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on September 16, 2010.

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{{National Register of Historic Places Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois National Register of Historic Places in McDonough County, Illinois Neoclassical architecture in Illinois Hotel buildings completed in 1927