The neighborhood around the former Lincoln College is filled with beautiful houses, in a relatively restricted number of styles on the northeast side of Lincoln. There are a huge number of houses in the Italianate style. As well as an abundance of immaculately restored Queen Anne style houses such as the one you see below….
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Cedar Street, Part Two, Washington, Franklin County
Proceeding down towards the river, we realize that the houses above are the same ones in the photograph below, just seen from the opposite direction and over one hundred years later. The house above looks like it’s been modified slightly from 1908. But this house above and below can clearly be seen in the far…
Cedar Street, Part One, Washington, Franklin County
Cedar Street turned out to be a delight, with a well-preserved stretch of houses from a wide range of styles. Below, looking way off in the west where the trees are is the location of the thoroughfare. The street works cohesively because despite being so stylistically divergent, the use of the same color of brick…
Around Immanuel Lutheran Church, Washington, Franklin County
It wouldn’t be a German American town in Missouri without a Lutheran church across town from the Roman Catholic one! In this case, it’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, founded in 1862, with the current church constructed in 1882. But let’s look at the general neighborhood around the church, which is a combination of parking lots, intact…
Main and Lafayette Streets, Washington, Franklin County
Walking southeast down Main Street from Cedar Street and St. Francis Borgia we see a fairly intact stretch of Nineteenth Century streetscape. The photograph below, most likely from the church’s spire, shows the downtown area, including Main Street at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Edward G. Busch owned a hardware store along this stretch,…
New Haven, Franklin County
The land for New Haven was purchased by Phillip Miller in 1836 down along the river, and at the basis for the settlement was the selling of wood to riverboats that passed by. But first we’ll look up in the highlands, where streets follow the ridgelines from Highway 100. First up is the school, which…
Newport, Kentucky
Alright, alright, we’re done with Cincinnati, at least for a year or so until I go back. But before we head back to St. Louis, we’re going to visit the two historic suburbs across the river in Kentucky. We’ll start with Newport, which is one of those surprises I never expected to find across the…
German Village, Columbus, Ohio, Part Three
We’ll look at a few more streets in German Village today. I think what makes this such a beautiful neighborhood is that even if the houses are different sizes, they maintain a certain architectural uniformity that creates that harmony. Likewise, with only a couple of different roof types, such as the gable above and the…
German Village, Columbus, Ohio, Part Two
Like Lafayette Square in St. Louis, the side streets of German Village in Columbus are where I found much of the more intimate and interesting views of the neighborhood. What really struck me were the alleys! Wow, talk about clean and unobstructed! I think St. Louis’s decades-long experiment with dumpsters has failed. It just makes…
German Village, Columbus, Ohio, Part One
We now turn to Columbus, the capital of Ohio, and the German Village neighborhood south of the city’s downtown. German Village is one of those special places in America that I have a feeling most people have never heard about, but it is easily one of the most beautiful and harmonious built environments I have…