I was in the mood for looking at a little Greek Revival architecture so we’re heading into the recent archives and looking at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, obviously they’ve built a bigger one nearby but this building still has some government functions inside. Like the Old Courthouse in St. Louis and…
Tag: Historic Buildings
Kennerly Avenue East of Annie Malone Drive, The Ville
Starting to the east of the houses you can see in the last photo of this post from November of 2024, we first see the two-family above. On the south side of Kennerly is the former Homer G. Phillips Hospital, which has since been converted into senior housing. It’s interesting to see how the four…
Dr. Martin Luther King Drive From Union Boulevard to Hodiamont Avenue
We jump to Union Boulevard on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive (Wohl Community Center is one place we went by) and start to see some more interesting buildings along the former Easton Avenue. These one story commercial buildings look largely abandoned. We now arrive in the Wellston Loop, which I have looked at before back…
Dr. Martin Luther King Drive From North Jefferson Avenue to Prairie Avenue
As I was heading towards Dr. Martin Luther King Dr., I glanced to my left while on North Jefferson Avenue and noticed the back portion of a building on Olive Street. No word on what happened. I turned onto MLK Dr. and proceeded west. This first portion is the former Franklin Avenue, and only later…
New Masonic Temple, Redeveloped
I never thought I’d see it, but the New Masonic Temple on Lindell has been successfully redeveloped into apartments, known as the B on Lindell. Not surprisingly, due to its massive size, its interior had never been completed, so the recent renovation was probably working with blank space in much of the building. It’s still…
Missouri Crematory
The Missouri Crematory was completed in 1888 according to designs by Otto Wilhelmi, and supposedly is the first one west of the Mississippi River, but I could not verify that. To be honest, much of the information out there on the crematory is not great, contradicts itself, and is also demonstrably wrong. I was able…
Tropicana Lanes
Tropicana Lanes opened in 1960, with a face-off between Olga Gloor and Johnny King defeating Sonny Fitter and Mildred Stauder. It’s still a landmark all these years later, with 52 lanes between its two sides. It has some interesting features, such as this concrete block screen wall below that helps shield the porte cochere from…
Eureka College, Central Illinois
I bet you always wondered where Ronald Reagan went to college, didn’t you? I’d driven by a million times but I finally detoured and photographed the leafy campus of Eureka College in Central Illinois. Unlike many other small colleges around the country, it is holding on and continuing to enroll students. Like any Midwestern university,…
Ventura High School Gymnasium, Iowa
Please bear with me for one more post from Iowa. While stopped in the small town of Ventura on the western shores of Clear Lake to get ice cream, we spotted this amazing gymnasium attached to the former high school. While the original high school building was fine (and utterly ruined with small windows), the…
Former Carondelet YMCA
Designed by Study and Farrar, the former Carondelet YMCA, which has now moved across the interstate, opened in 1926. It’s a great example of architecture based off Hanseatic cities merchant houses of the Sixteenth Century as the Italian Renaissance finally began to work its way north of the Alps with the idiosyncratic style of the…