The railroad used to go through Kirksville, until it was ripped out unceremoniously my freshman year for scrap metal. For years there was a large, muddy trench left in its wake, but I was pleased to see that it has been converted to a bike trail. But what is cool is that many of the…
Tag: Kirksville
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Update: The museum and visitors’ center is now complete. One of the best parties I went to in college consisted of two houses, the Green House and the White House combining forces for live music and debauchery. I guess it was only a matter of time before Truman got ahold of them to end the…
Kirksville Urban Renewal
Update: This was the parking lot across from my house junior and senior years of college. There were houses there until a few years before I arrived at Truman State in August of 1996.
I Can’t Believe I Used To Live Here
Update: Between November 2012 and March of 2016, the house was repainted brown.
Forest Llewelyn Cemetery, Kirksville
The original cemetery of Kirksville is a fascinating, strange place to observe the different styles of tombstones and monuments over the course of the last 150 years. If you look closely at the stone below, you can see a woman crying on another woman’s shoulder.
Kirksville High School
Update: I photographed it another time in 2012. The high school was finally demolished in the summer of 2019. Like much of America, Kirksville ditched its historic, pedestrian friendly high school for a sprawling suburban, car oriented building on the outskirts of town in the 1950’s. The old high school has sat empty for decades….
A Chopped Off Mansion, Kirksville
Update: The more I look at this building, I don’t think it was merely truncated but rather demolished and the stones reused for the new building. No stately house would have sat so close to the street, whose width had not dramatically changed in the last one hundred years. Nor would such a house have…