We finished up our tour of Cairo by revisiting Millionaires’ Row, which I still think is a weird name because there are not really that many mansions along it, and they’re not really that big, for that matter, befitting someone with a million or more dollars. First of all, what the heck happened to Riverlore, above? I found a newspaper article that the City of Cairo sold it to a couple that was supposed to renovate it, but all I can tell that is different is that all the nice bushes I photographed in 2014 have been ripped out and a muddy moat has been left around the perimeter of the house. What the heck?

The good news is that at least across the street Magnolia Manor still looks great, and I was able to take some better photos of the house than from my first visit.

The one house further south on Washington Avenue still looks good.

And interestingly, another house I photographed in 2014 looks like it saw the beginnings of a renovation but again it seems to have ground to a halt below.

We walked down 27th Street next.

Most of these houses are well-kept, and this is the area where most of the residents of the town live, from what I can tell.

There’s even a really nice church, First Southern Baptist Church, which may have been the last new religious space built in the city before the long decline began.

In the small triangular Lansden Park there is a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, but it’s really weird as there is absolutely no plaque identifying him as such, and if you look closely the bronze likeness is fastened to its plinth by a couple of nuts. Someone could throw it in the back of their pickup truck in under three minutes if they wanted to!

St. Mary’s Park looks nice, and has a host of houses that face it.

At this point, we headed out of town and set our sights on Paducah.