Walbridge Elementary, in Walnut Park, has some pesky trees in the way that make taking clear shots of its entire front facade difficult. Luckily a photograph from the 1950s shows just what a beautiful composition the school is. It was designed by Rockwell Milligan and opened in 1922. It continues the Ittner/Milligan firm’s tradition of…
Tag: Baroque Revival
Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, Revisited
Starting today, I’m going to be going back to the vaults and publishing pictures from some of my travels in the Upper Midwest in 2018. I visited the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for a friend’s wedding, and contributor Jeff Phillips and I visited the Co-Cathedral of St. Paul while we had some time off before the…
Missouri Avenue, Lafayette Square
I realized I had never photographed the western side of Lafayette Square, where there is a plethora of beautiful houses, such as what was the McLaughlin Funeral Home. Its third floor once had a Mansard roof, as was typical of the Second Empire style, but it was destroyed by the Great Cyclone of 1896, and…
Revisiting St. Louis Place, Early February 2019
I went by the site of the old Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, which is still a vacant lot since it was first damaged by a fire and then demolished. I was intrigued by a rectangle of concrete with rough aggregate in the middle of the lot–was this a relic of the old church? I…
Most Holy Name of Jesus, College Hill, Revisited
Update: See my series on the College Hill neighborhood around the church. Update: See historic photos of the interior here. As of 2024, the church has been hit badly by vandals and scrappers. For my weekly column at St. Louis Magazine, I wrote about the rich architectural history of the former Most Holy Name of Jesus…
Returning to St. Louis Avenue Now For Over A Decade
Update: See St. Louis Avenue further west of here in these three posts: here, here,?here?and here. The row of houses in between Parnell (really sort of the traffic artery Jefferson becomes up north) and N. Florissant Avenue is one of the most beautiful streets in St. Louis. I love showing it to visitors to blow…
South Entrance Lodge, Tower Grove Park
I can’t find much information about the South Entrance Lodge of Tower Grove Park, but it is a wonderful building combining a mostly Romanesque Revival Style structure with elements of the Baroque Revival. It sits close to the Arsenal Entrance and Center Cross Street, and the busy cut-through traffic from Tower Grove Avenue and Magnolia…
Former Holy Name Roman Catholic Church
This was Bob Reuter’s church, way back in the 1960s. It still is occupied, as far as I can tell.
Moses Montefiore Synagogue, Bloomington, Illinois
Update: The synagogue has been renovated by a new owner. Don’t let anyone tell you that smaller cities in America are boring! After eating lunch at a great “farm to table” place downtown, I began wandering around the streets to the east of Bloomington’s center. I spotted this building, and was intrigued; what was it?…
First Presbyterian, Later Calvary Baptist Church, Mattoon
Update: Edited for content in July of 2021. We spotted this stunning dome through the trees as we drove through Mattoon, Illinois. As we approached, we came to the realization that the church is abandoned, with wide open windows allowing in rain and trespassers. But that dome! It’s been slapped with cheap metal cladding, slathered…