We continue to the northeast on Northeast Madison Avenue in Northeast Peoria, looking at the varied housing stock, including that interesting house above with a double gable. Note the three front doors on the first floor. There are more of that common workers’ houses, with some of the original millwork left in the lintels on…
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Northeast Madison Avenue Between Spalding and Voris Avenues, Northeast Peoria
I revisited the neighborhood in Peoria that I’ve dubbed Northeast Peoria, which are those streets that come out of downtown and have a wide variety of styles and ages of construction. I chose to view the entire length of Madison Avenue Northeast, starting at Spalding Avenue but really beginning at the giant trench that takes…
North Grand Boulevard Between North Market Street and Natural Bridge Avenue
Crossing North Market Street, we see the newly christened St. Josephine Bakhita Parish, which is the former Sts. Theresa and Bridget. Due to the closure of a number of other parishes, there was a consolidation of borders. A former convenience store has opened up with a new owners… Joseph Baker Wallpaper and Paint, from what…
North Grand Boulevard Between Finney Avenue and North Market Street
North Grand Boulevard is in transition; half of the right-of-way is being converted into a Great Rivers Greenway to connect Fairground Park to the center of the city. North Grand is also one of the most devastated stretches of a major thoroughfare. We’ll start at Finney Avenue and head north for two days. Above, this…
St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church, Krakow, Franklin County
Moving east on Highway YY, we reach the unincorporated community of Krakow, which was historically Polish American. St. Gertrude’s was founded in 1846. The church building is quite old; the original building was constructed in 1856 with the tower being built and altered in the following decades. As you can see below, the nave was…
Casco Methodist Church, Leslie, Franklin County
Located near Ebenezer Lutheran Church, we find Casco Methodist Church. The original rubble stone church, most likely dating from 1871, has a more contemporary narthex built out the front, probably built in 2002 The back wall of the church is unadorned except for two tie rods. The cemetery is large, with what looks to be…
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Port Hudson, Franklin County
Our next stop was Ebenezer Lutheran Church, which is located in the unincorporated community of Port Hudson or Leslie. It was organized on September 1, 1846. The church’s original name was Deutsche Evangelische Lutheran Ebenezer Kirche, and the current structure was built in 1896 at a cost of just over $3,000. It is also a…
St. Louis Avenue Between North 23nd and North 25rd Streets, South Side
Moving west of North 23rd Street, we see much less lavish homes. And if we look closely many, but not all, are actually two-family houses. I always joke in St. Louis architects designed multi-family houses to look like single families. Of course, there are obvious multi-family apartment buildings like the ones below. But as I’ve…
St. Louis Avenue Between North 22nd and North 23rd Streets, South Side
While I’ve looked at St. Louis Avenue numerous times over the last eighteen years, I’ve never actually published any photographs of the south side of the street in St. Louis Place (except for ones that have all been demolished and this one weird one). We’ll start at North 22nd Street and work west. First up,…
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….