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Immanuel Lutheran Church, The Greater Ville
I took a closer look at the old Immanuel Evangelisch Lutheran Church, which sits at the corner of Marcus and Lexington. The beautiful front portal features Christ in a mandorla, an almond-shaped...
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St. Augustine’s, Late December, 2018
I’m not sure if much has changed since the last time I photographed St. Augustine’s, but it is still in a state of deterioration that does not bode well for its future.
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Old Second German Presbyterian Church
Supposedly they were going to tear down this church. It looks like it’s still standing to me. It has not been condemned, it has not had a demolition permit pulled for it, the congregation registered...
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College Hill in the Snow #24: Our Lady of Perpetual Succor
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor burned long ago, but the many buildings of its campus are still standing, showing what a large presence the congregation was in the community....
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College Hill in the Snow #29: 1500 and 1900 Blocks of College Avenue
College Avenue is an interesting mix of buildings, to say the least. There is the famous house above, and there is the stately Tudor Revival house below. We first spotted the house above in May of...
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Roof Collapse, Grace Lutheran
There is bad news to report at the old Grace Lutheran Church, whose later congregation had to abandon it due to costs associated with operating a massive masonry structure. The roof of the side porch...
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Dameron Monument, Bellefontaine Cemetery
Logan D. Dameron seems to have been the president of the Southwestern Book and Publishing Company, and this monument sits on his burial plot. It has acquired quite a bit of patina on it over the...
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Granite City, Revisited
I looked around the residential areas north of Niedringhaus Avenue in Granite City back in early April. The town’s heart is still the steel mill, which lies on the southeastern part of town, but the...
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Updates on Demolitions, Fires and Other Collapses
There is much to report on this spring, starting with a collapse of an out building on Utah Street in Benton Park. It can still be salvaged, though. Below, as I suspected would happen, another of the...
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St. John Nepomuk Roman Catholic Church, Revisted
St. John Nepomuk sits just to the east of Tucker Boulevard, originally Twelfth Street, and possesses most of its original buildings, including a school building and parish hall, I believe. Saint John...
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Jennings, Early May 2019
I’m really worried about Jennings. I have visited a couple times over the years (yes, I understand that a couple of visits is not good enough to get a complete understanding of a community), and every...
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North of Downtown, Belleville
Just north of downtown Belleville are a cluster of beautiful Italianate houses, many of which have been adapted for other uses over the years, as is common as the commercial core of a city grows into...
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St. Liborius, Interior, Revisited
Easily the posts that have elicited the strongest emotions from my readers have been the ones concerning St. Liborius, which was converted into a skate park after the previous owners had begun to let...
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Jennings into Walnut Park
I spotted this interesting church off of Jennings Station Road just off of Interstate 70, so I thought I would take a look at the surrounding streets. At some point I crossed from Jennings into the...
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Old St. Edward’s Roman Catholic Church
The beautiful former St. Edward’s Roman Catholic Church, at the corner of Clara and Maffitt, is now owned by Perpetual Praise and Worship Ministries. It was created in 1893, and closed in 1992, when...
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Carpenter Gothic House, The Ville
I almost didn’t spot it, but I discovered another Gothic Revival or Carpenter Gothic style house in the Ville neighborhood. These are extremely rare houses, and I wrote an article about them a couple...
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Washington, Illinois, August 2019
I returned to Washington, Illinois, and snapped a couple of quick photographs of the bank building on the square in downtown, which I realized I had not documented in a decade since these pictures. I...
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St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Peoria
As I mentioned yesterday, most of the historic residential core of Peoria northwest of downtown was destroyed, but one of the few buildings that survived was St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church. It...
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