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Germantown, Montgomery County, Ohio
I drove into Germantown, Ohio from the east, and was greeted by a row of beautifully restored houses from the Nineteenth through early Twentieth Centuries Orangish-red brick was used to build...
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Early Houses in Northern Carondelet
I’ve looked at the super rare Carpenter Gothic house before, but there are also other extremely unique and very old houses located in the northern reaches of Carondelet that date back to the earliest...
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Ohio Avenue Between Winnebago and Miami Streets, Gravois Park, Revisited
Detail of Plate 32, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Ohio Avenue between Winnebago and Miami streets has long been one of the more fascinating blocks in the city for...
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Tomb of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate...
Located just northeast of downtown Peoria, the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception has recently gained greater prominence as the burial place of the Venerable Bishop Fulton J. Sheen....
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McCausland Avenue Between West Park and Plateau Avenues, Franz Park
McCausland Avenue has long been known as the southern half of the western boundary of St. Louis. It’s a little too narrow to be a good four-lane street, but it’s too wide to be a two-lane street....
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Christ Temple Cathedral Church, Former Salem Methodist Episcopal Church
I’d driven by Christ Temple Cathedral Church dozens of times at the corner of Page Boulevard and Pendleton Avenue, and last weekend the light was satisfactory, so I stopped and took some photographs....
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Former Emmaus German Evangelisch Church
I’m afraid this little church’s days may be numbered at the northeast corner of Tower Grove and Chouteau avenues, as there will be a new development going on this block that will encompass this...
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Emmaus Homes, New Lease on Life
Bonjour mesdames et messieurs! Bienvenue au Château Hoffman! OK, jokes aside, anyone in the preservation community–or anyone in the wider community in general–who has a problem with the Hoffman...
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EPiC Church, Former Troy Presbyterian Church
I will openly admit to being severely ignorant and unknowledgeable of Troy and Lincoln County history, but we did stumble across this beautiful building, which is now home to the EPiC Church. However,...
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Metamora, Revisited
I found myself near Metamora, which I had visited back in 2011, so I went into town and looked around again. I stumbled across St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, built in a German Hallkirche style,...
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Ohio Avenue Between Winnebago and Miami Streets, Gravois Park
Detail of Plate 32, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Editor’s Note: Due to the malfunctioning of St. Louis Patina in mid-January 2022, the original text of this post...
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Interior, Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
Emil Boehl, Holy Trinity Church, Southwest Corner of Mallinckrodt and Seventeenth Streets, c. 1890, Missouri History Museum, N10714 We finally were given the opportunity to see the inside of Most Holy...
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Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, North Eleventh Street Between Montgomery...
I’ve long been intrigued by this corner storefront sitting right by the interstate. The black paint is the from the never-ending efforts of Operation Brightside to cover up graffiti. The city agency...
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St. Louis Place from North Florissant Avenue
Looking across North Florissant Avenue into the St. Louis Place neighborhood, we see the apse of the old St. Liborius, which we probably shouldn’t be able to do if it weren’t for the demolition of so...
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St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, May 2022
A friend and I were talking about this church recently, so I thought I would drive by and see how it was doing. The old St. Mark’s is not doing well, completely open to the elements and shorn of all...
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St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, Peoria, Exterior
Up the hill in Peoria away from the South Side is St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, which has roots going back to 1891. It is interesting in that it has only two front portals. As is typical of many...
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St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, Peoria, Interior
I was absolutely stunned and delighted to find some magnificent paintings on the interior of St. Mark’s when I went inside on a quiet Saturday. There’s a long story about how the parish renovated the...
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Around Woodford County, Illinois, June 2022
I went around and looked at some of the towns northeast of the family farm. I started with Eureka, the county seat of Woodford County. I could have sworn I had featured the courthouse before, but...
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Around Buchanan County, Iowa, July 2022
In a clockwise route, we explored various small towns in Buchanan County, starting in the northeast with Lamont, where we first spied this foundation above left behind but incorporated into a horse...
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Urban Density Surviving on Grand Boulevard
While all those demolitions are going on down south, there are actually a fair number of really nice buildings still standing just to the north, particularly on the west side of Grand Boulevard....
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