Back to downtown, we see how Alton has beautiful Italianate houses of the merchants and other businessmen close to the river where riverboats and then the railroad flourished.
Many are rehabbed and we even have an apartment building that would look at home in Southwest St. louis thrown in.
This is a very green house.
There are also some very Gothic Revival churches.
The church above, which again I correctly guessed was a former Congregational church, which later became The Whole Truth Church, which closed a few years ago. It now sits abandoned; the house below might come along with it as a package. It was originally the Church of the Redeemer Congregational church, with its original core built in 1870 with additions in 1902. I imagine maintenance became prohibitively expensive.
The church below is Grace United Methodist Church.
Below, this is most likely the former Alton United Methodist Church, and now Livingstone Church, but I think it is closed, as well.
