Things continue to look great crossing over Marcus Avenue as we remain in the Penrose neighborhood heading east on Lee Avenue. A first appears, which is multi-family housing, as seen above. But then some really fascinating and unique Gingerbread houses reappear, and they show designs that I haven’t seen anywhere in the city. There’s even…
Tag: Romanesque Revival
Evans Avenue Between Vandeventer and East Prairie Avenues
I know I’ve photographed these apartment buildings before, but for the life of me I can’t find that post now. But what is there to say? It’s totally depressing. Almost everything on this street is abandoned and deteriorating, and there is nothing being done about it. This one building below looks to be the only…
Evans Avenue Between Whittier Street and Vandeventer Avenue
I drove down Evans Avenue a little ways just west of Vandeventer Avenue. In case you didn’t know, there is a program that is couple of years old now called “Mow to Own,” where if you maintain a vacant lot owned by the Land Reutilization Authority, you can acquire title to it after a set…
West Water Street, Decorah, Iowa
While the Winneshiek County Courthouse is technically on Main Street in Decorah, otherwise there’s nothing main about it. The real main street of the city is one more block north, on West Water Street, which while running into the water to the west and east (remember, the river sweeps around in a big bend around…
Hamilton Heights, Early Summer 2023
We dive into the Hamilton Heights neighborhood at the corner of Hamilton and Minerva avenues, where on the northwestern corner “New” St. Augustine’s stands. I next headed east on Minerva down the hill, where there is that extraordinary row of four-family apartment buildings. I’ve documented them before in January of 2015, September of 2019 and…
Around Downtown, Galesburg, Illinois
Whiting Hall the Italianate style building above and below, was originally part of Knox College and functioned as a women’s seminary. The central core is from 1854-7, with the east wing added in 1885 and the west wing added in 1895, when it received its current name. It is now senior housing. The Knox County…
Central Congregational Church, Galesburg, Illinois
As I mentioned yesterday, Central Congregational Church holds down the southwest corner of Central Square in Galesburg. It is easily the most beautiful example of Richardson Romanesque that I have seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them. I was also pleasantly surprised to find a Congregationalist church still in business; I think every one…
Central Park, Galesburg, Illinois
Look at the above postcard from the late Nineteenth Century, with a view down Main Street, which we looked at yesterday. An intact, intimate urban space with even a streetcar going by. It’s not like that anymore. As we walk down Main Street in Galesburg, crossing over Cherry Street, we see the parking lots and…
Main Street, Galesburg, Illinois
We’ll be looking at Galesburg, Illinois for the next six days, as part of my continued examination of the cities and towns within the sphere of St. Louis’s economy. Located along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, there is still a giant railyard going through the town in a northeast-southwest orientation southeast of downtown. Main…
Coming Soon: Nothing! North 13th Street
I’d heard about the impending doom of this building for years, and it’s finally happening now. I realized I never quite captured it very well, but you can see its front façade in this post from June of 2019 (last photo). I’ve long been worried about this end of Old North; this weed-choked lot, I…