Beginning in mid-March and continuing through early June 2004, Fever River Research conducted Phase III archaeological mitigation on the proposed site of the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum’s parking lot (West Half, Block 2, Ninian Edwards Addition).  The project area is located immediately north of the central business district, and was originally the location of several early houses of Springfield’s merchant class.  The construction of several commercial buildings and their associated parking lots during the early years of the twentieth century encapsulated the earlier nineteenth century cultural deposits.  As part of this work, the greater part of four urban lots was nearly completely stripped of overburden exposing a wide variety of domestic features.  Foundations of three pre-Civil War houses, several ancillary outbuildings, and multiple privy pits were excavated.  These features document the transition of the neighborhood from one dominated by upper class, single family residential dwellings, to a combination of working class multi-family residential and commercial buildings.  The artifact analysis and report preparation phase of this project was only recently funded, and a final report on the results of this research is not anticipated until 2007.