Update: The property is now owned by the City of Cahokia, Illinois, not Saint Louis University. A reader provided additional photographs of Parks College in March of 2018. As of May 6, 2021, Cahokia was merged with Centreville and Caseyville to create the new city of Cahokia Heights. The future of the former Parks College…
Tag: Deserted
The House on Pleasantview Road, Surviving Another Summer
Update: The house was destroyed sometime in the first half of 2019. The house on Pleasantview Road is still standing.
Jewish Orthodox Old Home, In Transition
Update: The old nursing home has continued to deteriorate as of 2018. Thanks to a tip from a reader, I was alerted to the removal of all of the windows and the painting over of graffiti at the old Jewish Orthodox Old Home. What is happening? I do not know. Perhaps it is being renovated,…
Granite City Steel, From State Street
Update: The building on the right above has been demolished. State Street, what appears to have been the second of two major commercial streets along with Niedringhaus Avenue, is basically 100% vacant. There are some stores converted to apartments. But what is truly interesting about walking down the street is seeing how the U.S. Steel…
Historic Pond Drying Up
Remember last year when I posted about all the great historic, if abandoned buildings out in Pond, a small hamlet along Manchester Road in Wildwood? Well, the historic Pond Hotel was demolished, and so was the Italianate farmhouse I documented.
Tiffany Neighborhood
Update: The area is now seeing new investment as of 2020. I went back and looked at the area in February of 2021Â and the fall of 2022. I revisited the former Loretto Hall above in June of 2023. What is there to say about the Tiffany neighborhood, the area south of Chouteau, west of Compton,…
The Tortured Land Around Lambert Airport
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say, “Hey guys, let’s go hang out around the airport!” But surprisingly, the site of Lambert was once a cottonwood marsh known in French as Marais des Liards, which was also the original name of Bridgeton, whose original site lies under the new runway. Nowadays, this land is…
The Jewish Orthodox Old Home
I drive around a lot, and see lots of buildings severely damaged by decades of abandonment and neglect, but every so often I come across a building has been abandoned for only a year or two. In general, there’ll be a few windows missing, but the building will still look occupied on cursory inspection. Sadly,…
The Old Farmhouse, Pleasantview Road
Update: The house was destroyed sometime in the first half of 2019. Amazing how a change of seasons and the passage of over half a year can change a building. The old farmhouse outside of Washington, Illinois, is still clinging to life, but as you can see from earlier pictures, there has been a vast…
Newstead Avenue Through the Ville
Update: I have now extensively photographed the Ville and Greater Ville neighborhoods, but I still have much more to explore, and more people to meet. There have been some streetscape upgrades to Newstead Avenue. I came to the humbling, and constantly present, realization on Saturday that I’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the…