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Jackson, East 12th and White Streets, Dubuque, Iowa
North of the planing mills and woodworking factories lie the workers’ houses. They are elegant, well-kept and down to earth houses. Above is Jackson Street, with a style of Italianate house with a...
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Main Street Between 13th and 15th Streets, Dubuque, Iowa
I think Main and Locust streets in Dubuque might have the best preserved row of upper-middle to upper class houses from the 1870s to 1890s in the Midwest. While there are some losses, for the most...
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Cathedral of St. Raphael and Environs, Dubuque, Iowa
The Cathedral of St. Raphael was completed in 1861 in brick, with the front facade in limestone finished later in 1876. Dubuque is actually an archdiocese, despite being by far a much smaller city...
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St. Augustine’s, Sunset, Early May, 2020
I no longer worry about St. Augustine’s like I did in the past, now that young and energetic people are working to save it. But I realized that I can still continue to come by at sunset and photograph...
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Augusta, St. Charles County
Starting out in the countryside near Augusta, Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church dates back to 1851. Its building is a wonderful example of a wood frame Gothic Revival church; I don’t know if...
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Pestalozzi Street, Benton Park, Late May 2020
Well, then. There was a cottonwood tree that was snowing on Benton Park on the day I was photographing the neighborhood, so you’ll see little white dots in a lot of the photographs in the next week....
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Salena Street Between Crittenden and Lynch Streets, Benton Park
Salena Street is lined with a wide variety of houses. The Second Empire house above has a fascinating story. If you look closely to the left, you can see that the yard is cut out; at one time it was...
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Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Florissant
It’s a little difficult to photograph Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in the middle of downtown Florissant, but it is a fantastic example of Gothic Revival architecture, replacing the original...
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Messiah Lutheran Church, Tower Grove East
I’ve driven and walked by Messiah Lutheran Church thousands of times, and I am embarrassed to admit that other than this one photo from September of 2013, which I replicated below since it’s such a...
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Former Nativity of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church
What is now the Celestial Temple of Peace at 5513 Oriole Avenue at the corner of Harney was originally Nativity of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church in Walnut Park. It was opened in 1904, and closed in...
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St. Agatha’s Roman Catholic Church, Revisited
St. Agatha’s Roman Catholic Church is one of the more handsome religious buildings in the inner neighborhoods of St. Louis. As can be seen in this historic photograph below, it has changed little in...
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Oak Hill Presbyterian Church
I came to the realization recently that I had a grand total of four posts about Tower Grove South out of over 4,500 posts over the last thirteen years, so decided to go take some pictures of the...
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Arnold
Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church has a rich history stretching back to 1840, making it one of the oldest parishes in Missouri, and probably west of the Mississippi. The current church dates...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 32: Iowa Avenue Between Osage and Keokuk...
I returned to photograph the block of Iowa Avenue between Osage and Keokuk streets because it was the first block of Dutchtown I ever photographed way back in 2008, and I find it interesting to see...
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Calvary Cemetery, Summer 2020
This interesting enclosure at Calvary Cemetery is rare in St. Louis cemeteries; it is Gothic Revival in style and still has plenty of room left in it, as it seems like the burials are around the...
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, Summer 2020
Bellefontaine Cemetery has been a welcome respite this summer with so many other places closed. The self-guided tour is a great way to spend some time safely. James Eads’s monument looks very much...
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The South Side, Quincy, Illinois
For the next several weeks, I’m going to be looking at the towns upriver from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, starting with Quincy, Illinois. It’s an interesting city, and in many ways, it is a...
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Salem Evangelical United Church of Christ of Quincy, Illinois
This soaring brick and stone structure was originally founded back in 1848 as the Salem Evangelical Church of Quincy, an offshoot of the German Lutheran tradition. The present building seems to date...
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From the Vault: Downtown Palmyra
Downtown Palmyra is typical of many small county seats: an abundance of Italianate storefronts of about two stories high that were built in clusters so they create a “street wall” along Main Street....
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Around the Courthouse, Hannibal
Thankfully, there are not oceans of parking around the courthouse, but instead the original houses of the middle and upper class of Hannibal, which are a showcase of typical Victorian Period styles....
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