I stumbled upon this Catholic church in downtown Peoria when I was visiting nearby. The parish dates from 1878 but the current church is from 1903. While it’s known as the Sacred Heart of Jesus, when looking at the cornerstone, it says Herz Jesu Kirche, so I will assume it was a German national church…
Tag: Peoria
Northeast Peoria, Early June 2025
It wouldn’t be a complete visit to Central Illinois without checking in on Northeast Peoria, those streets that stretch out in a diagonal fashion from downtown Peoria. It is an interesting mix of rehabbed and abandoned buildings. This gas station is a find; if you look carefully, there are the letters for Standard Oil on…
East of North Street, Peoria, Part Two
Continuing around on Columbia Terrace in Peoria, there are these houses from the early Twentieth Century. There is also this impressive Tudor Revival house around on Randolph Avenue. But then there are some amazing Queen Anne houses, with elaborate paint schemes, such as the one below. There is this unique house below in green stone.
East of North Street, Peoria, Part One
I’d looked at some of the streets northeast of Main Street in Peoria before, but this time I went up North Avenue. North Avenue heads to the north just about opposite of High Street, which I’ve looked at twice before, once in September of 2013 and 2019. These houses date from the early Twentieth Century,…
West Callender Avenue and Environs, Peoria
I was up on the bluffs on Moss Avenue in Peoria, which I’ve looked at before back in July of 2021, here and here. Then I realized, wait a minute, this house below looks familiar, so I turned off Moss Avenue and went north on Cooper Street. I went up to Callender Street, and discovered…
Arch Peoria
Someone has been borrowing ideas from St. Louis for their advertising out Farmington Road in Peoria, which gets weirdly rural quickly less than a mile from Bradley University.
Perry Street, Northeast Peoria
It’s presidential election season, so it’s time to go to Peoria! In this visit we head up Perry Street in the northeast streets of the city, which I have now created a tag named Northeast Peoria due to the frequency I visit the area. For the life of me I had no memory of a…
Grandview Drive, Peoria Heights
Straddling the city of Peoria and suburb of Peoria Heights, Grandview Drive offers panoramic views of Lake Peoria, a widening of the Illinois River as its wends its way through the prairie, buffeted by bluffs to the west. Originally envisioned in 1894, construction began in 1903 and was completed several years later. Laid out like…
Down By The River and the South Side, Peoria, August 2023
The public housing down by the river, which I first spotted way back in December of 2008, are finally being demolished. I had discovered they were built when Peoria demolished the red light district where Richard Pryor had grown up. The new buildings going up are nice, and they even feature the latest navy blue…
Grain Elevators, South of Peoria
These massive grain elevators south of Peoria along the Illinois River are slated for demolition–or maybe they aren’t. They’ll probably sit around for a long time until they’re finally, or completely, demolished.