Getting off of U.S. Highway 24 eastbound out of Peoria towards Washington, just to the north running parallel is Dutch Lane. It is one of those roads that is only a half mile north of sprawl, but is a hundred miles away figuratively. It ends at a T-junction, and then a road heads south to…
Washington, Illinois, August 2019
Update: I went back in March of 2022. I returned to Washington, Illinois, and snapped a couple of quick photographs of the bank building on the square in downtown, which I realized I had not documented in a decade since these pictures. I also explored some of the side streets, where there are some fantastic…
Pleasantview Road and Irish Lane, August 2019
Update: I went back and revisited the road in early July of 2021. I went back to Pleasantview Road in early August, to see how things were. Below, I was shocked to discover the old farmhouse, which I had been photographing for years, had vanished, despite receiving brand new storm windows and a front door…
North Broadway, Near and Far North Riverfront, Summer 2019
North Broadway never ceases to fascinate me. As usual, I refer to it as a street, and also an area. For example, the above and following two photos are on or around Holly Avenue. The image of east of Broadway, if you have one, is usually one of warehouses, factories, or sadly, abandonment. It is…
Carpenter Gothic House, The Ville
I almost didn’t spot it, but I discovered another Gothic Revival or Carpenter Gothic style house in the Ville neighborhood. These are extremely rare houses, and I wrote an article about them a couple of years back about them at St. Louis Magazine. You’ll see it in the second floor windows at the back of…
Highland Avenue, Wells-Goodfellow
One of the strangest and most unique streets in Wells-Goodfellow is the narrow, one-way Highland Avenue, which is lined with wood frame houses. There must be a reason why they are all here, built out when this was the middle of nowhere. Many of them retain their original millwork, but they are going abandoned rapidly,…
North Pointe
I finally got back into the heart of the North Pointe neighborhood, which for simplicity’s sake, I include under the Baden tag. North Pointe is easily one of the most beautiful, intact and best kept secrets in the entire city of St. Louis. I could not find a single abandoned house, and I maybe could…
Vivian Astra Park
I had always seen this swooping oasis from Google Satellite up in the North Pointe neighborhood, far up in the northern reaches of the City, and I finally made it by to see it in person. Created by Vivian and Astra avenues, the park is really a wide boulevard that is the shape of a…
Baden, July 2019
The newer part of Baden is looking so good, up by Riverview Boulevard south of the Halls Ferry Circle, but down closer to North Broadway, there are a lot of problems, much like I had observed in the winter of 2018. While the houses across the street from Holy Cross are still standing, I noticed…