I visited Jefferson City recently, and I realized I had never really looked at the state capital outside of the capitol building. I discovered there is some great architecture, such as the building above and below, and over the next several days we’ll look at the city by street in the order I explored various…
Tag: Italianate
North of Snake Alley, Burlington, Iowa
At the top of Snake Alley, and south of where a U.S. Highway cuts through and crosses the Mississippi River is a highly intact and beautiful neighborhood. I think Iowa has some of the most stunning examples of the Queen Anne Style, and there are many meticulously restored houses throughout the state. This particular house…
Snake Alley, Burlington, Iowa
Continuing my series of Iowa river towns at the end of the month, we’re visiting Burlington briefly as we head up the Mississippi. I’d already visited the city back in September of 2013, but I’d only really focused on downtown. This time I focused on residential neighborhoods on the steep hills north of downtown, and…
Osage Street Between Iowa and Ohio Avenues
And just like that, crossing over Iowa Avenue on Osage Street, and the houses go back about thirty years compared to the buildings we were looking at just two blocks to the west. The Second Empire, with its Mansard roods and wood cornices, as well as Romanesque Revival houses with its brick ornament line the…
Iowa Avenue Between Winnebago and Chippewa Streets
It’s a busy week around St. Louis Patina headquarters so posts will be brief, but we’ll take a look at Iowa Avenue south of the famed Iowa Buffet, at the corner of Winnebago Avenue. A couple of early Greek Revival houses are surely some of the earliest houses on the block. The house below looks…
Avenue G, Part Two, Fort Madison, Iowa
We make it back down to Avenue G where we again see more Italianate storefronts ling the thoroughfare. And as we have seen before in places such as Macon, Missouri, a Modernist bank building has been inserted into the street wall. There are some more interesting buildings, such as this bank above and below. But…
Avenue F, Fort Madison, Iowa
We then cut down one block to Avenue F on 8th Street, where there are still a plethora of beautiful Nineteenth Century houses. In particular, there are many Second Empire and Italianate houses. Then there’s this massive church. Union Presbyterian Church was founded in 1838, and is one of the oldest of its kind in…
Avenue E, Fort Madison, Iowa
We walked up two blocks to Avenue E, past Central Park, where there is a miniature Statue of Liberty. They even got the little fort at the base correct. Below is the Fort Madison United Methodist; it seems to have had two earlier buildings before this and even purchased their bell from Montgomery Ward. This…
Avenue G, Part One, Fort Madison, Iowa
As part of our continued series of looking at Iowa river towns north up the Mississippi River from St. Louis at the end of the month this summer, we next head to Fort Madison, crossing over a massive bridge combining both rail and road. Fort Madison’s street grid is laid out with numbered streets starting…
Vermont Avenue Between Loughborough Avenue and Mott Street, Carondelet
North of Loughborough, we head back into a more “normal” Carondelet streetscape, with a mix of wood frame and brick housing stock. Eclectic and a mix of houses from across a good fifty to seventy years of construction, there are buildings that run the range from working class to upper class.