From the Roman Catholic church above, to more humble buildings such as the abandoned, wood frame church below, the wealth and population is exhibited in Cairo’s churches.
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Historic Churches, Cairo, Illinois
Cairo’s Civil Engineering Marvels
Cairo sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, landlocked by giant levees that keep back the two mighty bodies of water. At the southern end of the peninsula upon which the city…
Further South than Richmond, Virginia: Cairo, Illinois
I finally made it to Cairo, Illinois with my father last week. I have to admit, while I was prepared to see what many of my friends have already been documenting for years, I was…
Cairo, Illinois Next Week
I traveled to southern Illinois to visit the town of Cairo, a city in many ways that could have been so much more, but was destroyed by its flaws.
Storefront Additions
I find it fascinating how houses, as their commercial value went up, often times received storefront additions, sometimes when streetcars began to go by their front doors. These two buildings, once clearly houses, received fronts…
Revisiting the Cinderella Building
On a sunny Saturday, I was standing across the from the Cinderella Building and rediscovered its amazing terracotta decorations.
Random Shots, Central West End
South Side of Lindell
Lindell was originally lined with mansion, and most of them were swept away in redevelopment, some of which is itself historic now. But it must have been truly incredible to ride in a carriage down…
North Side Lindell Boulevard, Revisited
I love the mighty row of apartment buildings on Lindell in between Taylor and Euclid. They’re mostly from the early Twentieth Century, but there’s a couple of more recent ones that actually fit in pretty…
Washington Avenue, Central West End
It never ceases to amaze me that the fortunes of a neighborhood can be so finite across ward boundaries, as they are in the Central West End. Look at these houses; they would go for…
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