PREORDER | Bresee Tower: The First National Bank Building
Bresee Tower: First National Bank Building is a photo history book containing two hundred photographs of the twelve-story high rise construction in Danville, Illinois as the tallest structure in Danville history. The building, formerly known as the First National Bank Building, has overseen the ebbs and flows of the city's last 126 years.
The photos are preceded by a brief history of the Classical Revival skyscraper and the land's ties to Abraham Lincoln's early law career on Illinois' Eight Judicial Circuit in the 1850s, as well as an inquiry into what may come of this piece of land on Danville's original Public Square once the abandoned tower meets its demolition date.
Written by ultrarunner, historian, author, and photographer Michael Kasper, who has compiled hundreds of photos of Bresee Tower while on training runs on the streets of Danville. If you're from or currently reside in Danville, try to put yourself in his shoes as you flip the pages, envisioning where in the city he would have been as he stopped and took each shot. This is his first self-published title, while a second title, Running Danville, encompassing Danville's entire history as told from his eyes, is in the works.
Preorders from the first run will be signed and numbered by the author.
$20 from every sale of the book will be donated to the Vermilion County Museum.
Bresee Tower: First National Bank Building is a photo history book containing two hundred photographs of the twelve-story high rise construction in Danville, Illinois as the tallest structure in Danville history. The building, formerly known as the First National Bank Building, has overseen the ebbs and flows of the city's last 126 years.
The photos are preceded by a brief history of the Classical Revival skyscraper and the land's ties to Abraham Lincoln's early law career on Illinois' Eight Judicial Circuit in the 1850s, as well as an inquiry into what may come of this piece of land on Danville's original Public Square once the abandoned tower meets its demolition date.
Written by ultrarunner, historian, author, and photographer Michael Kasper, who has compiled hundreds of photos of Bresee Tower while on training runs on the streets of Danville. If you're from or currently reside in Danville, try to put yourself in his shoes as you flip the pages, envisioning where in the city he would have been as he stopped and took each shot. This is his first self-published title, while a second title, Running Danville, encompassing Danville's entire history as told from his eyes, is in the works.
Preorders from the first run will be signed and numbered by the author.
$20 from every sale of the book will be donated to the Vermilion County Museum.