Mid-Continent Modern: The Champaign School of Architecture documents the contributions of Jack Sherman Baker, John Gordon Replinger, A. Richard Williams, and Robert Louis Amico to the local built environment. Over the last ten years, we have not only documented their work via images, but collected plans, elevations, and architectural models as part of a broader archival project. These places offer insights into the powerful subtlety of the vernacular. We encounter the translation and transposition of universal ideas in local contexts. The project becomes more than stories of a set of singular buildings or a canon of architectural style, but a meeting place for communities of ideas and social practice: architects in architecture schools, builders and materials, and owners within communities.