We next headed down to what I think is the Old Chicago neighborhood of Rock Island, which has seen redevelopment and the construction of mixed-income public housing. The color blue has also been a popular choice for the older houses. Unlike Davenport, Rock Island has most definitely chosen to have a levee, which is straight…
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Rock Island, Illinois, Part One
The original railroad bridge that first crossed the Mississippi River in 1856 between Rock Island and Davenport is long gone, but there are obviously new spans to replace it. The Government Bridge, which we drove across to Illinois to visit the two cities that make up half of the Quad Cities, is quite the hulking…
From the Vault: Augustana College
More of my photos dug up from September 2011 reveal the beautiful Old Main Hall at Augustana University, built in 1883 in what I would describe in an Italianate/proto-Beaux-Arts style. It is most certainly not Beaux-Arts in the purest sense as popularized by Cass Gilbert or McKim, Meade and White, but is not purely Italianate…
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Bridge
Update: Apologies on the low quality image; I photographed a museum display on Arsenal Island. Apparently it’s next to impossible to find a decent photo of this bridge. Before the railroads, there was the Michigan and Illinois Canal, and I looked at one of its locks in November of 2022. This is the bridge that…