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Cathedral of the Holy Angels, Gary, August 2023
I visited the second of two cathedral on my trip, the second that was closed when I visited, and the first of a diocese in Gary, reflecting the rapid growth in northwest Indiana after World War II....
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City Methodist and Other Places, Gary, August 2023
Oh my, I was expecting this by looking up recent photos on the internet, but nothing can really prepare you for what you see when you’re there in person. There roof over the nave of City Methodist...
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Woodward Avenue, Churches and Other Buildings, Detroit
Siegel, Arthur S, photographer. Untitled photo, possibly related to: Detroit, Michigan. Looking north on Woodward Avenue from the Maccabee Building, with the Fisher Building at the far left and the...
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Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Exterior, Detroit
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Aerial view of a portion of the northern reaches of Detroit, Michigan, with a focus on the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, a Catholic cathedral that opened...
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Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Interior, Detroit
The staff graciously turned on the lights for me so I could photograph the interior of the cathedral, which was completed in 1930, several years after the church was consecrated. There were some...
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Corktown and Environs, Detroit
I was driving around in the Hubbard Farms and Mexicantown neighborhoods, and I snapped these photos. I also spotted the Michigan Central Terminal off in the distance; we’ll come back to it in a bit....
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Michigan Central Train Station, Detroit
The Michigan Central Station, after sitting vacant for decades and held hostage by a billionaire’s greed, has almost reached its opening day. Towering over the northwest end of Corktown and...
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Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit
Founded in 1895 on Woodward Avenue, Woodlawn Cemetery relieved pressure on the smaller cemeteries such as Elmwood or Mount Elliott cemeteries deeper into the city. It is big, clocking in at 140 acres,...
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The Grande Ballroom and Grand River Avenue, Detroit
One place I wanted to visit in Detroit was the Grande Ballroom on Grand River Avenue, northwest of downtown. While the building has been abandoned for decades, it once played a pivotal role in the...
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East Grand Boulevard, Detroit
Terminating at the MacArthur Bridge, which leads out to Belle Isle, East Grand Boulevard stretches to the north-northwest, and is lined with fine houses that date to the early Twentieth Century. It...
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Down by the River, Detroit
Let’s walk from the Campus Martius, named after the famous field in ancient Rome where soldiers trained (it later filled up with temples such as the Pantheon), and part of the original Woodward plan...
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Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Cathedral, Toledo
I didn’t realize it, but Toledo is a diocese, and the cathedral is located northwest of downtown. The current cathedral was completed in 1940, after an earlier school and chapel dedicated to St....
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Vistula Historic District, Toledo
Down by the approaches to the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway Bridge is the Vistula Historic District, which retains some amazing architecture. The majority of my phots are from along East Superior...
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Downtown, Part Two, Cleveland
Moving along through downtown Cleveland, we reach the “Beaux-Arts” or “City Beautiful” portion of the city, which every metropolitan area seemed to have dabbled with in the early Twentieth Century to...
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Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland
St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Cathedral, while showing a 1940s exterior renovation that belies its 1852 construction, sits at a busy intersection in downtown Cleveland. The original design of...
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East of Downtown, Cleveland
Cleveland is much like St. Louis in that it is much longer than it is wide. In this case, however, the city stretches along a lake, and is longer east-west. St. Clair and Superior avenues in many ways...
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In Search of the Sidaway Bridge and John D. Rockefeller, Cleveland
Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company New York, and Wilbur Watson & Associates. Sidaway Avenue Footbridge, Jackowo & Garden Valley...
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Downtown, Youngstown
Downtown Youngstown is really nice! Now, I’m defining it as the area enclosed by Highway 422, which surrounds it to the northeast, effectively cutting it off from the rest of the city; on the...
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Auburn Avenue, Mount Auburn, Cincinnati
Mount Auburn? That’s sounds interesting, I thought to myself, and then discovered that there was a historic site related to future president William Howard Taft. After taking a terrible photo of his...
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Down By The River and the South Side, Peoria, August 2023
The public housing down by the river, which I first spotted way back in December of 2008, are finally being demolished. I had discovered they were built when Peoria demolished the red light district...
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