The Urbana-Lincoln Hotel – Lincoln Square Mall is a historic building complex located at 300 South Broadway Avenue in Urbana, Illinois.
Local architect Joseph Royer designed the hotel in the Tudor Revival style; the building features extensive half-timbering on its stucco exterior.
[3] Yuan made renovations to the hotel, including fixing the roof, upgrading the HVAC and plumbing systems,[2] and modernizing some rooms.
[6] [7] Due to a general sentiment that Urbana's economy was stagnating, local business leaders reached out to several large retailers in the late 1950s in an attempt to attract a store to the city.
Carson Pirie Scott expressed interest in the city if it were willing to build a large commercial development, sparking the Lincoln Square Mall project.
The Urbana Central Development Company, a subsidiary of Carson Pirie Scott, acquired the land for the mall in 1961, and the name Lincoln Square was chosen the following year.
Carson Pirie Scott sold the mall in 1988; its anchor store was converted to a Bergner's and later a Herberger's.