Update: The house was destroyed sometime in the first half of 2019. It’s been a while since I’d photographed the house on Pleasantview Road, and I usually approached it from the south, and I was very surprised to see that there had been some dramatic changes. The back wing had been boarded up with new…
Tag: Central Illinois
Princeton, Illinois
The weather was weird in Princeton when we came through, but it is a really beautiful town, with a long history going back before the Civil War. It has two “downtowns,” one down by the county courthouse, and the other up by the rail depot. Another commercial strip has developed near Interstate 80. I believe…
Boys Entrance
Seen on the side of Lowpoint-Washburn Elementary School.
Old Cottonwood Tree, August 2018
Against all odds, the last of five cottonwood trees planted several generations ago is still alive. The debris from when it was hit by lightning has been cleaned up since 2016.
Family Farm, August 2018
Things are looking good around the family farm, even if it has been a dry summer. The barns are now surrounded by grass and corn.
DePue, Illinois
Located far up the Illinois River, where it bends to the east north of St. Louis, DePue sits on a lake off the main channel. The town has some amazing slipcovers on its old buildings in the downtown. This old bank has one of the coolest survivors of an old burglar alarm, which I assume…
Mount Vernon Cemetery, Washburn, Illinois
Update: Thanks to a reader, this has been identified as Mount Vernon, Linn or Cazenovia Cemetery. Occasionally, driving a lonely back road, we come across a cemetery without a name, and we stop and photograph it anyway. This cemetery, with a big looping circle drive around it, caught our attention south of Washburn, Illinois.
Henry Bridge, Illinois
The river crossing at Henry, Illinois over the Illinois River is a massive “Pennsylvania Through Truss” design built in 1933, replacing an earlier wood bridge. Since river traffic still makes it this far upstream, it must be high enough to allow for the clearance of large vessels. Built by McClintic-Marshall Company of Chicago and Pittsburgh,…