Update: I photographed it another time in 2012. The high school was finally demolished in the summer of 2019. Like much of America, Kirksville ditched its historic, pedestrian friendly high school for a sprawling suburban, car oriented building on the outskirts of town in the 1950’s. The old high school has sat empty for decades….
Tag: Adair County
Adair
Update: the church is apparently St. Mary’s Church, built in 1904, abandoned since at least 1974, and on the National Register. I visited again in November 2012. The little hamlet of Adair, in eastern Adair County, is a textbook example of the shrinking of the rural population of Missouri. What little remains, however, is striking….
A Chopped Off Mansion, Kirksville
Update: The more I look at this building, I don’t think it was merely truncated but rather demolished and the stones reused for the new building. No stately house would have sat so close to the street, whose width had not dramatically changed in the last one hundred years. Nor would such a house have…