I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say, “Hey guys, let’s go hang out around the airport!” But surprisingly, the site of Lambert was once a cottonwood marsh known in French as Marais des Liards,…
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The Jewish Orthodox Old Home
I drive around a lot, and see lots of buildings severely damaged by decades of abandonment and neglect, but every so often I come across a building has been abandoned for only a year or…
The Old Farmhouse, Pleasantview Road
Amazing how a change of seasons and the passage of over half a year can change a building. The old farmhouse outside of Washington, Illinois, is still clinging to life, but as you can see…
Newstead Avenue Through the Ville
I came to the humbling, and constantly present, realization on Saturday that I’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the urban fabric of St. Louis A whole new area of the city, the Ville,…
Abandoned Farmhouse, Route J, Adair County
I couldn’t believe it; I came over the hill, almost to Route A, and there I saw it, sitting in splendid isolation. Still standing, period. Abandoned for decades, and last seen by me in the…
Out in the Country in Adair County, Northeast of Kirksville
Driving the backroads of Adair County, one encounters signs of habitation in small clusters. More often, one is met with desolation. Abandoned barns, signs of the former agricultural legacy of the area, sit in weed-choked…
Vulcan Street, Cardondelet
The historic fabric of St. Louis is slipping away east of Broadway, both up north, and down south in Carondelet, where some of the oldest surviving housing stock in St. Louis resides. What is most…
Zombie Subdivision, Wildwood
My parents and I headed out to our favorite zombie subdivision in far western St. Louis County, off of Wild Horse Creek Road. What was intended to be a high-end subdivision sits largely empty, with…
Abandonment and History
I came across this abandoned farmstead in the west central portion of Wildwood; the barn is starting to deteriorate and has collapsed on one side. A simple house nearby sits empty. I often remark that…
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company Factory, McReeTown, Revisited
I went back to the American Tobacco Company, or more commonly known as the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company to shoot the intersection of Folsom and Thurman for DartSTL. This factory was huge, but that…
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