Gotta love Post-Modernism, huh? Why, the new courthouse looks just as good as the old one! OK, I’m being sarcastic. I wonder how long this new one will last? By the way, for all of…
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John R. Kirk House, Kirksville, Missouri
I found some old photos I took back in 1998 of the John R. Kirk House, the home of a former president of Truman State University. I lived across the street from it for two…
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Post-Modernist Explosion, Kirksville
Wow, they didn’t build them like this back when I was at Truman.
Old Kirksville High School, Rotting
One of my favorite memories of senior year of college in the spring of 2000 was when a large group of art students gained permission to stage a giant art show within the abandoned walls…
Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University, Kirksville
I was always impressed how the 1993 major expansion of Pickler Library embraced the older structure, leaving it largely intact and viewable along its front from the long bridge spanned atrium of the addition. The…
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…
Adair, Revisited
I made it back out to the small hamlet of Adair, in eastern Adair County. It looks like there has been some work on the church, which is on the National Register. The cemetery is…
Labadie
Labadie, not far from the county line in Franklin County, is worth a visit. Still largely intact as a small town that dot Missouri, there are a few shops on the main street fronting…
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