Continuing north past Lynch Street, we look at the west side of McNair Avenue in Benton Park. We looked at the east side of the street back in November of 2019. These first few houses are interesting, in that they are perhaps more dense than what we see in what was originally the “suburban” Benton…
Tag: Italianate
Rising Stove
I love ghost signs, and this one on North Broadway is one that I hadn’t seen or photographed before. I like the name.
North Nineteenth Street From Ferry Street to North Grand Boulevard, Hyde Park
North Twenty-First Street is another street lined with wonderful houses, and many buildings are still occupied as we head up the hill towards North Grand Boulevard. Now this house below is really interesting. It is surely one of the oldest houses in Hyde Park, and was built before street grading was finished, as the basement…
North Twentieth Street From Farrar Street to Newhouse Avenue, Hyde Park
I’ve looked at the east side of North Twentieth Street in January of this year, and now I thought I’d look at the west side, starting at Farrar Street, where the old Krey Packing Plant is seen in the background. Next to this beautiful house is this interesting little office. I wonder if it had…
Four Historic Districts, Bloomington, Illinois, Part Four: Franklin Square, Revisited
I’ve actually looked at Franklin Square in Bloomington before back in March of 2016, but I thought I would take another look. The square has served as a public forum in much of the city’s Nineteenth Century’s history, including a speech by William Jennings Bryan, the wedding of Adlai Stevenson’s daughter, and other events.
Four Historic Districts, Bloomington, Illinois, Part Two: East Grove Street
East Grove Street is the next historic district, which extends out east from downtown Bloomington. It is primarily populated with Queen Anne style houses from the 1880s. There has been extensive rehabbing of the houses, and it is really an impressive group of homes from the period. There are one or two Italianate style houses…
Four Historic Districts, Bloomington, Illinois, Part One: North Roosevelt Avenue
I was up in Central Illinois, so I thought I would check out some of the historic districts in Bloomington that looked interesting. I’ve already checked out White Place, one of the other prominent historic districts, back in March of 2016. We’ll be looking at four in all, starting with the North Roosevelt Avenue Historic…
South Main Street, Revisited, Washington, Illinois
I first photographed these houses all the way back in July of 2009, and then I completely forgot I just photographed them again back in May of 2024 in Washington, Illinois. But I liked how the branches were casting shadows on the facades of the houses in the early morning late of the early spring….
Tower Grove Avenue Between Magnolia and Botanical Avenues
We walk back to Tower Grove Avenue and work our way north, glancing back to the south into Tower Grove Park at the Superintendent’s house, which I looked at all the way back in May of 2008. Through the trees we can see the Tudor Revival roofline of the current president’s house of the Missouri…
Downtown Union, Franklin County
I rolled into Union, the county seat of Franklin County, on a quiet afternoon last Saturday and took a look around. Union, like Washington to the north up Route 47, has seen explosive growth in the last thirty years as an exurban community in the larger St. Louis Metropolitan area, so there is a lot…