Heading east of St. Louis Avenue, I looked at the north side of that thoroughfare, having looked at the south of the street in two parts, here and here back in July of 2022. There is still a large part of JeffVanderLou west of North Grand Boulevard, even if most of the huge neighborhood is…
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Southwest and Northeast of Downtown, Galesburg, Illinois
Heading southwest down Louisville Road, I spotted one of the grain elevators that line the train tracks in Galesburg. Now owned by ADM, it possesses one of the largest grain silos I have ever seen, at least in diameter. I worked my way back up on Monmouth Boulevard, which connects the center of town with…
Fire at the Former Fred J. Swaine Manufacturing Co.
Update: Everything on this block has now been demolished. The night after the fire at Jamison Memorial Church, a suspicious fire broke out at the former Fred. J Swaine Manufacturing Co. building on the north side of the vacant lots of what was supposed to be the ill-fated Bottle District. A descendant of the founder,…
Commercial Street, North Side, Springfield
You can read about some of the history of the Commercial Street Historic District here, at the website for the area. This is an old fire station. I think these buildings below could be spotted in the historic photograph at the top of this post. There seems to be more empty renovated storefronts on this…
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Beck Avenue East of Morgan Ford
Let’s start looking at the neighborhood that rose up on the land the Russells subdivided, cashing out their land after it could no longer be exploited for its natural resources. Beck Avenue is typical of many streets on the south side of Tower Grove South, which is made up of small tract homes for the…
Main Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Main Street faces the water, demonstrating that New Haven was a town founded on the river. There are still some old wood frame houses in between the street and the river. I assume they are some of the oldest buildings in town, but I do not know. There was a ferry at one point across…
A Collapse and the Near North Riverfront
Well, for the second time in a couple of weeks a building just north of downtown was destroyed that I didn’t have any pictures of (the first was this one). I suppose I always took the building for granted, but I learned after high winds caused a partial collapse that it was in worse shape…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Robert and Loughborough Avenues, Carondelet
Back in 2021, I looked at some of the other streets in Carondelet, and I also took a look at the heavy industry that made the suburb south of St. Louis into an economic powerhouse, a true independent town with its own government and society. I was delighted to discover Pennsylvania Avenue, formerly 2nd Street,…
Howard Bend, February 2023
I’ve been driving out and around the Howard Bend area since the early 1990s, and it’s interesting t see how it’s been changing. In fact, one of my earliest posts, almost fifteen years ago, looked at the area when it was still rural. Finally, after years of false starts, Maryland Heights’s dreams of developing the…
Mill Creek Valley, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lick Run, which we looked at yesterday, empties into Mill Creek, the industrial spine of Cincinnati. Not surprisingly, it has been heavily modified, altered and polluted by humans over the last two hundred years. There is something sublime about the giant swath of hundreds of miles of railroad tracks that you can see fleetingly while…