I made it by Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Cahokia on a sunny day, after the last time I had visited during a rainstorm. It is one of the oldest churches in the region.
There is also a cemetery around the back of the church.
A Blog detailing the beauty of St. Louis architecture and the buildup of residue-or character-that accumulates over the course of time.
This parish was founded in 1699. The current “log” Church dates to 1799. The parish has a museum in the former school that is well worth a visit.
Great photos, Chris, now that you had a sunny day.
Those really are some nice photos of a systematically “special protections” old colonial, pre brick and stone parish building that the Chateau family chose not to “willfully forget about” Saint Louis, Missouri definitely does not have a pre Treaty of Edinburgh Lewes, England spelling in it’s name, Which the ghosts of the Slayback Brothers, Robert E. Funsten, and other pre Schnucks supermarket chain old economic elites seamed to not mind the older Metis population times official spelling of their “reclaimed metropolis” when writing about greater Saint Louis in a few preserved diary records