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…
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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…
Nauvoo, Illinois
We visited the historic Mormon settlement of Nauvoo on our journey north up the Mississippi River looking at Iowa cities back in May. Of course, Nauvoo is in Illinois, and it is in an isolated corner of the state. There are numerous houses and other buildings from the historic period that have been restored, and…
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…
Vermont Avenue Between Mott and Bowen Streets, Carondelet
We end our tour of Vermont Avenue in Carondelet looking at more upscale houses, from the 1890s to the 1920s. But there is still a mix of smaller houses from earlier decades, much like we see in Carondelet. Vermont Avenue takes us through a wide range of different eras, which is what makes the neighborhood…
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.
Rutger Street, West of South Eleventh Street
I’ve looked at the greater Frenchtown area before, particularly the part known as LaSalle Park, a neighborhood left behind after the streets around it were annihilated in urban renewal. We’re going to look at one last remnant, the south side of Rutger Street in between South 11th and Tucker Boulevard today, seen above highlighted in…
After the Tornado: Visitation Park
Visitation Park is a small neighborhood, north of Delmar and just west of Union Boulevard, named after the former Visitation Academy which was once in this area. There was still some damage from the tornado, mainly in small loss of shingles to roofs. You can see the house in better times here. However, as can…
Residential Neighborhood West of Dowtown, Keokuk, Iowa
“The town has a population of fifteen thousand now, and is progressing with a healthy growth. It was night, and we could not see details, for which we were sorry, for Keokuk has the reputation of being a beautiful city. It was a pleasant one to live in long ago, and doubtless has advanced, not…