I find the long block of Cote Brilliante Avenue between Marcus and Euclid avenues one of the enigmas: filled with beautiful houses but at the same time embodying the troubles afflicting so many North Side neighborhoods. The overgrowth has grown up due to the wet spring and the hot temperatures of the early summer. I…
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Aldine Place, Early Summer 2021
It had been awhile since I had checked up on the block of Aldine Place just east of North Kingshighway Boulevard. Needless to say, there has been some major landscaping! I had seen a huge cloud of smoke hovering over the area last weekend. I first examined this block in 2013 and then again in…
Norwood Square, Revisited Early Summer 2021
I revisited the side streets in the area in the winter of 2023. I was in the area of Norwood Square, which I first photographed back in August of 2009, and it looks like there has been at least one new demolition since the last time I went by, which was in December of 2018. In…
Wabada Avenue Behind the Former DePaul Hospital
I photographed Wabada Avenue, which is the southern cross street off North Kingshighway behind the former DePaul Hospital. It is an example of a healthy block in the Kingsway West neighborhood. The block is very long, just like the ones to the north and south of it.
Former DePaul Hospital
Update: The nursing home that was housed in the building for many decades abruptly closed without advanced notice on Friday, December 15, 2023. Residents were bused to other nursing homes and employees were left without their final paychecks. Heavily damaged by fire on December 2, 2024. I guess I never posted my pictures of the…
Samuel Cupples Elementary School
Similar story as many other abandoned North Side schools: the Samuel Cupples Elementary School was designed by revolutionary architect Rockwell M. Milligan in 1918, and it now sits empty. It’s a very simple design, and I like its reserved Tudor Revival style. I strongly suspect there was additional ornamentation on the two flanking wings on…
The Long Blocks Behind the Former DePaul Hospital
I’d spotted the long, very long blocks west of North Kingshighway near the old DePaul Hospital [whose post has mysteriously disappeared–can you find it for me? (Update: I went ahead and revisited it here)] and Most Blessed Sacrament, so Saturday morning I made it up there to take a look. Above, this house is on…
Wells-Goodfellow, Spring 2021
Update: I went back in the fall of 2021 and January of 2023 (last four photos). I took a look around Wells-Goodfellow to see how things were doing. I had been back in 2018 to revisit places I had seen in the past, and things were looking much the same as when I had looked at…
Former Most Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church
Update: I revisited the church in January of 2023. The former Most Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church is sadly abandoned, and increasingly open to the elements. There was another congregation in the building after the parish closed, but it is gone now, too. The old school, to the north up Kingshighway, is now Covenant House,…