It wouldn’t be a German American town in Missouri without a Lutheran church across town from the Roman Catholic one! In this case, it’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, founded in 1862, with the current church constructed in 1882. But let’s look at the general neighborhood around the church, which is a combination of parking lots, intact…
Tag: Franklin County
Main and Lafayette Streets, Washington, Franklin County
Walking southeast down Main Street from Cedar Street and St. Francis Borgia we see a fairly intact stretch of Nineteenth Century streetscape. The photograph below, most likely from the church’s spire, shows the downtown area, including Main Street at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Edward G. Busch owned a hardware store along this stretch,…
Front Street, Washington, Franklin Coutny
We’ll head down to Front Street along the Misssouri River, where unlike nearby New Haven, here that street name is more logically facing the riverbank where steamboats would have docked. There is a parking lot for visitors, which I’m not thrilled about and I think would be best filled in eventually. Industry such as corncob…
The John G. Busch Brewery, Washington, Franklin County
John B. Busch founded his brewery south of downtown in 1854, and it continued under the supervision of his sons for many years. Yes, as you might suspect, he was a brother of Adolphus Busch of Anheuser-Busch fame. As was typical, the brewery switched to the manufacture of soft drinks at the dawn of Prohibition….
St. Francis Borgia Roman Catholic Church, Washington, Franklin County
Heading east from New Haven, we’re going to be looking at Washington, Missouri in Franklin County. I’m actually kind of surprised, only two months from the sixteenth anniversary of St. Louis Patina, that I’ve never covered this important city on the Missouri River. We’ll start our tour by looking at St. Francis Borgia Roman Catholic…
Front Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Perhaps it’s illogical that Front Street faces a bluff and not the Missouri River, but nonetheless, the businesses lining the side of the thoroughfare that runs parallel to the train tracks is a wholly intact row of storefronts. The town has a website promoting the downtown’s stores and events. The buildings are all occupied or…
Main Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Main Street faces the water, demonstrating that New Haven was a town founded on the river. There are still some old wood frame houses in between the street and the river. I assume they are some of the oldest buildings in town, but I do not know. There was a ferry at one point across…
Wall Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Turning from Maupin onto Wall Street in New Haven, we’re greeted by perhaps one of the most beautiful stretches of streetscape in Missouri. The architectural styles range from the mid Nineteenth Century to the early Twentieth with Greek Revival to the Arts and Crafts. Perhaps what is interesting is that due to the sheer drop…
New Haven, Franklin County
The land for New Haven was purchased by Phillip Miller in 1836 down along the river, and at the basis for the settlement was the selling of wood to riverboats that passed by. But first we’ll look up in the highlands, where streets follow the ridgelines from Highway 100. First up is the school, which…
Eastern Quarry, Pacific
Further east, there is another giant quarry hollowed out of the earth. The large swath of flat land out in front of the quarry holes has been rezoned as an industrial park. I would assume this land was once the staged ground for the quarries behind.