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Highland, Illinois and the Schott Brewery
Highland, Illinois is an interesting town, located east of St. Louis in a part of the state that was settled early and Chicago was still a small town. It is around 10,000 people, and sits right on...
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Compton Heights Christian Church
Now the Summers Faith Temple Church, this was formerly the Compton Heights Christian Church, relocated to the south side of the entrance of Flora Place in the Shaw neighborhood. As is typical of many...
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, Summer 2020
Bellefontaine Cemetery has been a welcome respite this summer with so many other places closed. The self-guided tour is a great way to spend some time safely. James Eads’s monument looks very much...
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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program
For the first time in a decade, I’m posting an entry outside of my normal 7:00 AM in the morning post. I think the collapse of the western malt kiln at the Lemp Brewery, whose first three stories were...
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Dick Brothers Brewery, Quincy, Illinois
The Dick Brothers Brewery is located on York Street in the South Side German Historic District. It is a great example of adaptive reuse of a historic brewery building that has incorporated its...
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Maine Avenue, Quincy, Illinois
Maine Avenue east out of downtown Quincy is lined with a stunning host of all the major styles of Nineteenth Century architecture. There’s Italianate and Second Empire hybrids, like in St. Louis, pure...
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Downtown Quincy, Illinois
Steamboat Landing, Quincy, Illinois, c. 1908, Missouri History Museum, P0905-00010 Much like St. Louis, Quincy got its start due to its location high on the bluffs above the Mississippi River, allowing...
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North Side of Washington Park, Downtown Quincy, Illinois
Hampshire Street in between 4th and 5th street contains an exceptional row of Italianate buildings that are more or less well-preserved since the Nineteenth Century. Some are missing their cornices or...
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From the Vault: Marion County Courthouse, Palmyra
My family had stopped to get gas in early July of 2008 in downtown Palmyra, and we had seen the amazing Marian County Courthouse, so that is why I came back. Why I never posted these pictures is...
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Around the Courthouse, Hannibal
Thankfully, there are not oceans of parking around the courthouse, but instead the original houses of the middle and upper class of Hannibal, which are a showcase of typical Victorian Period styles....
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Former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Hannibal
It must be a hidden talent, but the first major building we stumbled upon coming into Hannibal was a giant abandoned building, which in this case is the former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. It’s the usual...
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Third Street, Louisiana, Missouri
Third Street is the main north-south corridor in Louisiana, Missouri, heading up to the bridge that crosses over the Mississippi River. The bridge was actually just replaced in the last year or so,...
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Former Kennard Elementary School
Kennard School, 5031 Potomac Avenue, c. 1930, Photograph by W.C. Persons, Missouri History Museum, N33239 Samuel M. Kennard Elementary School has been in the news recently, so I thought I would check...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 37: Virginia Avenue Between Bates and Fassen...
We’re picking up the “The Beauty of Dutchtown” series which was left off at Number 36. I went crazy and decided to photograph the entire length of Virginia Avenue in Dutchtown, from Bates Avenue in...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 38: Virginia Avenue Between Fassen and...
Crossing over Fassen heading towards Eichelberger, there are more commercial buildings, including one that has suffered a collapse of its cornice. It is by no means beyond repair, and I have seen...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 39: Virginia Avenue Between Eichelberger and...
Continuing north from Eichelberger, we see houses set back from the street, but then there are numerous businesses built right up to the sidewalk line, their front façades angled to match the...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 41: Virginia Avenue Between Delor and Itaska...
Passing by Delor, we see this Second Empire house on the west side of the street. Much of this section of Virginia was built in the Twentieth Century after this house, as the Whipple Fire Insurance...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 42: Virginia Avenue Between Itaska and Mount...
Moving past Itaska, we see one of the few buildings that is blatantly abandoned, with missing windows on the second floor. But then we see these tan brick-fronted bungalows, with wonderful white and...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 43: Virginia Avenue Between Mount Pleasant and...
Passing by Mount Pleasant Street, we see four two-family apartment buildings, obviously built at the same time by the same developer, but yet each one is slightly different in the fenestration and...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 44: Virginia Avenue Between Taft and Osceola
This section of Virginia Avenue is one of the first I looked at, way back in February of 2011, when I was seeking out the Stork Inn, which I revisited again in May of 2014. I was saddened to see the...
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