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St. Louis Place, Night
Cloaked in darkness, the broad expanse of St. Louis Place north of Cass Avenue, demolished for a failed industrial park, takes on a certain aura in the glow of streetlights. St. Augustine’s tall spire...
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Saint Louis University
The SLU campus has a wide variety of buildings, including this old Jesuit church, which is now the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. Nearby was an interesting, almost Modernist grade school. I...
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Third Baptist Church, Grand Center
Anyone who’s ever gone to a show in Grand Center has seen the welcoming lights of the Third Baptist Church at the corner of Grand and Washington. It is not the first Third Baptist Church at the site,...
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Grand Center, November 2012
It was a cold day, but Grand Center was devoid of human life except for the automobiles driving by on Grand Blvd. Word is the building below, which once held the Department of Health, is going to be...
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Abandoned Church, Mt. Sterling, Iowa
What is the story behind this church, in the tiny of hamlet of Mt. Sterling, just a few miles north of the Missouri border? Where did the people go? Did they move away? Stop going to the church?...
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Shining Light Full Gospel Tabernacle, Manchester Avenue
This humble little church sits right by Manchester Avenue, surrounded by a car repair and a larger building that casts a glowering shadow on it towards sunset, but I still really like it. The stained...
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The Winkelmann Mansion’s Demolition: A Symbol of What is Wrong With St. Louis...
We all knew the end was coming soon; when the news reports of angry neighbors bemoaning the precarious condition of the Winkelmann Mansion in its seriously damaged state began circulating, I knew that...
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Arcade Building, Revisited
I was planning on posting about the long vacant Arcade Building today anyway, but then came the announcement that the building will finally be renovated into apartments. The Arcade Building is...
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Tiffany Neighborhood
What is there to say about the Tiffany neighborhood, the area south of Chouteau, west of Compton, north of I-44 and east of 39th (originally Tiffany) Street? Most of it has been demolished by SLU,...
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Playing Around With My New Camera
I finally have my new camera, to which many of you generously donated money, up and running with a wide angle lens. I thought I should drive around and take some pictures of long or tall buildings to...
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Scruggs Memorial Methodist Church
This large church, sitting on what is now a triangle block, is certainly beautiful, and an excellent example of many churches in St. Louis with a curved, auditorium style sanctuary. Opened in 1884...
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Embarassing Blight on One of the Most Important Thoroughfares in St. Louis
Imagine, instead of the Church’s Chicken, stately mansions once sitting on this exact stretch of North Grand just blocks from Powell Hall. Luckily, some of those houses still exist, but sadly, they...
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St. Francis de Sales, Wide Angle Lens
I was never happy with my photos of St. Francis de Sales’s front facade, but I liked this one that I took with my new wide angle lens.
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Fourth Street, Burlington, Iowa
I walked through an alley down by the railyards, and came back up Fourth Street, which is what I would call the secondary main street of downtown Burlington. There are surprisingly few vacant lots or...
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Abandoned Church, Main Street, Peoria, Illinois
Right at the intersection of Main and High Streets, this magnificent church sits in splendid abandonment. It’s strange, since it sits right at the entrance of the West Bluff Historic District. Surely...
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Friedens German Evangelical Church
Located at Newhouse and 19th Streets in an isolated portion of Hyde Park, the Friedens German Evangelisch Church represents an important aspect of early St. Louis church history. While most Americans...
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Christ Church Cathedral
One of the oldest surviving churches in St. Louis, the Episcopalian Christ Church Cathedral occupies a quiet corner of downtown across the street from the newly restored Central Library. It was...
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