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Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part Two
North of Pestalozzi, there is an interesting mix of houses past the corner store that appears to have been converted into an apartment. It is a quiet street because it dead ends at Magnolia Avenue....
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 97: Tennessee Avenue Between Walsh and Delor...
‘ Heading north, we see more of the traditional houses that we see in the southern side of Dutchtown, built in the early Twentieth Century. Many like the ones above have pressed metal cornices that...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 99: Tennessee Avenue Between Itaska and Taft...
The next block is just as unique as the others further south on Tennessee Avenue, with compact two-families starting out just north of the Itaska. But then we get a whole row of single story...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 100: Tennessee Avenue Between Taft and Osceola...
Passing by Taft and another abandoned storefront, we begin to see the rise in elevation as we work our way up the hill towards Cleveland High School. There’s a wide variety of housing stock. Including...
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Bowling Green, Pike County
Constructed in 1917, the Pike County courthouse sits in the middle of the square in downtown Bowling Green. There is a veterans’ memorial on the southwest corner of the building. It’s in a reserved...
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Two Churches, Ste. Genevieve
While Ste. Genevieve is famous for being founded by French Canadian Catholics, there are other churches in town of historic importance, as well. Holy Cross Lutheran Church was founded in 1867, and...
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Commercial Buildings, Main Street, Ste. Genevieve
When I first put these photographs together, I thought this initial building was a storefront, but on closer inspection, despite its façade’s parapet wall, it does in fact appear to be a single family...
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Emmanuel United Church of Christ
The landscape around Emmanuel United Church of Christ has changed dramatically around the church since it was found in 1866 and when the current building was constructed in 1874. Of course this was...
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Indiana Avenue Between Lynch and Pestalozzi, West Side
Detail of Plate 36, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Turning around at Pestalozzi and heading north, we see that originally the west side of Indiana Avenue was fully...
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Downtown Springfield
Aerial View of Public Square Area, Springfield, The State Historical Society of Missouri, P0032 Downtown Springfield is dominated by a public square at the intersection of two major cross streets....
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Commercial Street, South Side, Springfield
Commercial St. Looking East, Arthur Richard Hill Photographs, The State Historical Society of Missouri, SP0067-f007-065 Heading north, we find the Commercial Street Historic District. I was confused...
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Commercial Street, North Side, Springfield
Commercial St. Looking East, Arthur Richard Hill Photographs, The State Historical Society of Missouri, SP0067-f007-065 You can read about some of the history of the Commercial Street Historic...
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Coming Soon: Nothing! North 13th Street
I’d heard about the impending doom of this building for years, and it’s finally happening now. I realized I never quite captured it very well, but you can see its front façade in this post from June...
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Main Street, Galesburg, Illinois
We’ll be looking at Galesburg, Illinois for the next six days, as part of my continued examination of the cities and towns within the sphere of St. Louis’s economy. Located along the Chicago,...
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Central Park, Galesburg, Illinois
Postcard Photo of Central Park Looking East Down Main Street, Late Nineteenth Century Look at the above postcard from the late Nineteenth Century, with a view down Main Street, which we looked at...
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Central Congregational Church, Galesburg, Illinois
As I mentioned yesterday, Central Congregational Church holds down the southwest corner of Central Square in Galesburg. It is easily the most beautiful example of Richardson Romanesque that I have...
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Around Downtown, Galesburg, Illinois
Postcard View of Downtown Galesburg, Early Twentieth Century Whiting Hall the Italianate style building above and below, was originally part of Knox College and functioned as a women’s seminary. The...
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Hamilton Heights, Early Summer 2023
We dive into the Hamilton Heights neighborhood at the corner of Hamilton and Minerva avenues, where on the northwestern corner “New” St. Augustine’s stands. I next headed east on Minerva down the...
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West Water Street, Decorah, Iowa
Brunt & Parman, Panoramic View of Decorah, Iowa, 1908, Library of Congress, PAN US GEOG – Iowa no. 101. While the Winneshiek County Courthouse is technically on Main Street in Decorah, otherwise...
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Evans Avenue Between Whittier Street and Vandeventer Avenue
I drove down Evans Avenue a little ways just west of Vandeventer Avenue. In case you didn’t know, there is a program that is couple of years old now called “Mow to Own,” where if you maintain a vacant...
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