In a city of old wood frame homes, the buildings of Olivette Park stand out in their brick construction. The vitality of the neighborhood can be seen in these handsome buildings, such as this old…
Metro East
Katherine Dunham Museum Needs Your Help
I wrote in my weekly article at St. Louis Magazine about the wonderful Katherine Dunham Museum over in East St. Louis. They need our help to keep going; it would be a shame for such…
Elsah, Illinois, Post-Tourism
It’s interesting; ten, twenty years ago there were a dozen or more shops and a couple of restaurants in Elsah, and now it’s dwindled down to just a couple. The signs on the highway barely…
Old Monticello Women’s College
Founded by Benjamin Godfrey, a wealthy New England minister in 1838, Monticello Women’s College lasted until 1971, when it closed in a wave of all-female college closings. The current buildings were constructed in august Romanesque…
Quarry, Alton
The massive caverns left behind by the mining and quarrying of stone throughout the St. Louis region never cease to amaze me. This quarry, just north of downtown Alton, is just one of many along…
Ruins, Alton Prison
These stark blocks of limestone, stacked upon each other as they have for almost two hundred years, remind me more of something I might see as part of a war memorial in Germany. But they…
Alton Cemetery
Alton Cemetery, like many Nineteenth Century cemeteries around the United States, sits on rugged topography, utilizing land that otherwise was not suitable for building houses or businesses. Of course, in Alton just about everywhere above…
Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument, Alton Cemetery
The Lovejoy Monument commemorates the career and death of Elijah P. Lovejov, the famous Presbyterian minister and ardent abolitionist. Having fled St. Louis out of fear for his safety, Lovejoy set up his printing press…
Spivey Building, Revisited
Malfunctioning Parking Meter, East St. Louis
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