Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Calvary Chapel in St. Joseph, the principal city in the northwest corner of Missouri. United States Saint Joseph Missouri, 2021. -03-31. Photograph. Library of Congress.
East of the civic center of St. Joseph, the terrain rises quickly up to what is now called Museum Hill, which is a veritable treasure trove of late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century housing styles.
There are also many churches near the bottom of the hill.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Frederick W Smith, Sarah Fullerton Schwenk, and Sponsor City Of St. Joseph Community Development Department, Norris, Laura, photographer. Museum Hill, Bounded by Jules, Sixteenth, Messanie & Ninth Streets, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO. Missouri Saint Joseph Buchanan County, 1933. Edited by Bergstone, David, translated by Wegman-French, Lysamitter. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Library of Congress.
Look at how much the houses to the east of the Christian Scientist Church have been renovated since they were photographed in the past.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Frederick W Smith, Sarah Fullerton Schwenk, and Sponsor City Of St. Joseph Community Development Department, Norris, Laura, photographer. 200 block of South 15th Street, east side, view toward northeast, Museum Hill, Bounded by Jules, Sixteenth, Messanie & Ninth Streets, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO. Missouri Saint Joseph Buchanan County, 1933. edited by Bergstone, Daviditor, translateds by Wegman-French, Lysamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Library of Congress.
There are beautiful views out over the Missouri River Valley, as well, which these houses below can enjoy, restored to their original appearance.
This might be one of the best examples anywhere of the Second Empire below.
