Downtown East St. Louis Historic District
16 photos
Winkelman House
14 photos
Hyde Park Dandelion Wine
17 photos
On April 7, Kara Clark Holland and I hosted a tasting of dandelion wine made from a harvest in Hyde Park. The location of the tasting was the Rebuild Foundation's building at 3619 Blair Avenue (one...
The Ville
56 photos
Gateway Mall
59 photos
Birthday 31
9 photos
Graciously hosted by the Rebuild Foundation in Hyde Park.
Priory Chapel
7 photos
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabum, architects
Pier Luigi Nervi, consulting engineer
1962
Crunden-Martin Building Fire
12 photos
Stonebrook
20 photos
Stonebrook
Antonia, Missouri
1959
Harris Armstrong, architect
Rescreen Foundation
4 photos
16mm films in Hyde Park.
Rebuild Foundation Rehabbing in Hyde Park
8 photos
Brownhurst
4 photos
1890-2011
Kirkwood, Missouri
Palladium
11 photos
Dorchester Avenue
11 photos
I visited Dorchester Projects, a series of creative spaces on South Dorchester Avenue in Chicago, in September.
Sidewalks of Portland
6 photos
Sidewalk contractors' imprints seen around Portland, Oregon this August.
Philadelphia
16 photos
Venice Power Plant
5 photos
Yeatman Square
39 photos
Lewis Place Festival 2011
7 photos
Columbus, Indiana
6 photos
Seattle, Washington
66 photos
The Oregon Coast
15 photos
Portland, Oregon
93 photos
Rebuild Cinema
9 photos
The Rebuild Foundation presented an evening of 16mm films from the Preservation Research Office collection. Films were shown at 1415 Mallinckrodt, a Hyde Park house being rehabbed by the foundation...
Save Our Saucer Rally
10 photos
July 6, 2011
One Volkswagen Van Later
10 photos
I was a guide on a private architectural tour by Volkswagen van.
The tour included:
- St. Margaret of Scotland Roman Catholic Church
- Shaw
- The Chatillon-DeMenil House
- Soulard and...
Pruitt Igoe Now
102 photos
Railway Exchange Building
17 photos
611 Olive Street / St. Louis, MO
Mauran, Russell & Crowell, 1913
Hodgen School
16 photos
More information here.
Sun Theater
6 photos
Carter Carburetor Plant
5 photos
2831 N. Grand
St. Louis, MO
Queeny Tower
7 photos
Open/Closed 2011
5 photos
Motels in the City of St. Louis
15 photos
O'Fallon
60 photos
The O'Fallon neighborhood of St. Louis.
Home on Connecticut
43 photos
Locust Street Business District
22 photos
Locust Street west of Jefferson Avenue
S.S. Admiral
6 photos
The S.S. Admiral was built in 1939-40 on the hull of the S.S. Albatross of 1907. Famous-Barr fashion designer Maizie Krebs designed the streamline art moderne boat. In 2011, the boat is being...
St. Louis Tornado on December 31, 2010
26 photos
An EF-1 tornado blazed a 2.1-mile track through north St. Louis from 12:08 - 12:11 p.m. on December 31, 2010. The Lewis Place and Ville neighborhoods were hit the hardest.
Fargo, North Dakota
14 photos
Ft. Madison, Iowa
17 photos
Keokuk, Iowa
8 photos
Arlington School
11 photos
Preservation Research Office Collection
25 photos
The Preservation Research Office recently acquired a large number of vintage amateur photographs of St. Louis taken from the mid-1930s through the 1970s.
Grand Forks, North Dakota
32 photos
Photos from October 2010
North Riverfront
47 photos
St. Louis' industrial north riverfront.
To Tulsa and Back
133 photos, 1 video
This trip included:
Branson, Missouri
Berryville, Arknsas
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Vinita, Oklahoma
Picher, Oklahoma
Baxter Springs, Kansas
Galena,...
Louis Sullivan's Idea
6 photos
Exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center curated by Timothy Samuelson.
Nashville
12 photos
October 2009
Cleveland
48 photos
I visited Cleveland July 15-17, 2010.
Chicken Coop Tour
9 photos
On Location, May-June 2010
107 photos
On Location: Exploring America through the Traces of a Lost Landscape-The Industrial Southwest
May 24 - June 6, 2010
Seminar offered by the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University...
Open Wheel Racing
9 photos, 1 video
Random shots from POWRi and USAC races around St. Louis.
Cairo, Illinois
26 photos
Photos
4 photos
Downtown St. Louis
207 photos, 2 videos
East St. Louis Public Library
3 photos
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
11 photos
River Roads Mall
16 photos
Liggett and Myers Historic District
17 photos
2412 Menard
21 photos
2501 Glasgow Avenue
5 photos
Michael Reese Hospital
16 photos
Chicago, Illinois
Urbanexus STL 2009
5 photos
Next American City came to town on September 23, 2009 for a whirlwind day that started with a tour of the city, led to a facilitated discussion among young people from around the city and ended at a...
James Clemens, Jr. House
58 photos
Madison County Poor Farm
11 photos
Edwardsville, Illinois
Bel Air Motel
9 photos
Now the Hotel Indigo, the Bel Air Motel first opened in 1958.
JanJohn Wedding
16 photos
June 14, 2009
DeVille Motor Hotel
39 photos
Location: 4483 Lindell Boulevard / St. Louis, Missouri
Date: 1963
Architect: Charles Colbert (through Colbert, Lowery, Hess & Boudreax)
14th Street
81 photos
B & O Railroad Complex
11 photos
East St. Louis, Illinois
Goldenrod Showboat
7 photos
The National Historic Landmark Goldenrod Showboat, built in 1909, sits deteriorating on the Illinois River near Kampsville, Illinois.
McEagle NorthSide Presentation, May 21, 2009
14 photos
Hunter Packing Company Plant
12 photos
Originally the East St. Louis Packing Company, later Brooklyn Packing Company. National City, Illinois.
Armour Packing Plant
35 photos
National City, Illinois
Memorial Plaza Tour
19 photos
Landmarks Association of St. Louis presented a tour of Memorial Plaza on Saturday, April 25. Rich Mueller led the tour with Michael Allen.
Mann Elementary School
13 photos
4047 Juniata Avenue
Tower Grove South
St. Louis, Missouri
Built: 1901 (William Ittner, architect); 1916 addition (Ittner); 1993 gymnasium addition.
St. Joseph's Home for the Aged
15 photos
Jefferson City, Missouri
Irving School
30 photos
Locates at 3829 N. 25th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Irving School dates to 1871 and was designed by August Kirchner. A large kindergarten was added in 1898. In 1995, the school closed and...
Hyde Park
118 photos
St. Louis Place
273 photos
1318 Hebert
12 photos
More information: 1318hebert.blogspot.com
Gary, Indiana
23 photos
Belcher Sugar Refinery
13 photos
The Belcher Sugar Refinery, 1883-2001. RIP.
Pevely Dairy Fire
9 photos
A fire on March 22, 2009,. destroyed one of the two twin large buildings at the Pevely Dairy complex (Grand and Chouteau) in St. Louis, Missouri. Demolition workers were doing interior demolition in...
The Great Divide: I-70 at the Gateway Arch
15 photos
Granite City, Illinois
6 photos
ONSL LHD
36 photos
Soulard
11 photos
Family Thrift Store
8 photos
One strange building, located in Gerald, Missouri. The building houses a thirft store that is open to the public.
Gateway Community Hospital
25 photos
Gateway Community Hospital on Martin Luther King Drive in East St. Louis, Illinois, was built as Christian Welfare Hospital in 1940, later expanded and then closed in 1989.
JeffVanderLou
86 photos
McKinley High School
10 photos
Deferred maintenance at the former McKinley High School (now McKinley Classical Junior Academy) in St. Louis, Missouri.
Trouble on Fourth Street
6 photos
Gerhart Block
9 photos
On Vandeventer between Forest Park and Laclede stands the beautiful Gerhart Block.
Hyde Park East of I-70
8 photos
Illinois Traction "Tunnel"
17 photos
The Illinois Traction system was an electric interurban passenger railway connecting St. Louis with Peoria, Danville, Springfield and other points in central Illinois. The line utilized the McKinley...
St. Louis Place North of Pruitt Igoe
14 photos
The area of St. Louis Place roughly bounded by Cass Avenue (south), Jefferson/Parnell (west), Benton Street (north) and 22nd Street (east) has the lowest density of the neighborhood and is...
Avalon Theater
15 photos
McKinley Bridge
11 photos
Wellston J.C. Penney Building
6 photos
Located at 5930 Martin Luther King Drive in the Wellston Loop commerical district, the Wellston J.C. Penney (actually in the city of St. Louis) was built in 1948 and designed by William McMahon in...
Farm on Route 3 in Randolph County, Illinois
16 photos
Still researching what we stumbled upon one day on the way back from Fort de Chartres. The farm stands on Route 3 just south of Red Bud, Illinois. One can see the Dairy Queen from the farm entrance...
Chouteau-Edwards Mill Demolition
15 photos
Waterloo, Illinois
Carondelet Coke Plant: Under Demolition
27 photos
Photos from the Carondelet Coke Plant in south St. Louis, currently under demolition.
The House on Sugar Loaf Mound
15 photos
Sugar Loaf Mound stands on the side of the Mississippi river in south St. Louis city. The prehistoric native burial mound is the last left in "Mound City." In the 1920s, someone built a...
Barry-Wehmiller Company Factory
13 photos
Located in north St. Louis near Florissant Avenue and I-70, the Barry-Wehmiller Comapny Factory has been abandoned by at least eight years. The last tenant was Terry-Tech, a computer repair and...
City Club (Later Hotel Alverne)
10 photos
Soulard, c. 1977
5 photos
Alton, Illinois
20 photos
Mullanphy Tenement
16 photos
Built 1909 and designed by Barnett, Haynes and Barnett, the Mullanphy Tenement has been listed on Landmarks Association's Eleven Most Endangered Buildings list for the past four years.
Pullman
23 photos
Chicago, IL
Orlando Public Library
17 photos
One of the architectural joys of the summer was encountering the amazing Orlando Public Library in Orlando, Florida. The New Brutalist building dates to 1966, and its designer was John M. Johansen. ...
Stone Houses at Steins and Water
8 photos
There are a few early stone houses at the southwest corner of Steins and Water streets in Carondelet (St. Louis, MO).
Fourth Baptist Church Fire - September 20, 2008
36 photos
The Fourth Baptist Church complex at the northwest corner of 13th and Sullivan avenues in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood caught fire at around 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 20. The fire was...
Orlando, Florida - September 2008
31 photos
McPheeters Warehouses
21 photos
Lever Soap Plant
15 photos
Lever Soap Plant
Pagedale, MO
Abandoned since 2001.
Fire at 1124 Bayard
9 photos
Vacant house burns in the middle of the afternoon on the hottest day in weeks.
Fountain Park
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Building Arts Foundation Conservatory
31 photos
The St. Louis Building Arts Foundation Conservatory is located at the former Sterling Steel Casting foundry in Sauget, Illinois. The foundry was constructed between 1922 and 1959. In 1993, the St....
Collinsville, Illinois
39 photos
St. Mary's Infirmary
29 photos
More information here.
Joliet & Lockport, Illinois - June 2008
40 photos
Nooter Corporation Building
16 photos
Location: 1400 S. 3rd Street; St. Louis, Missouri USA
Built: 1959
Architect: Sverdup & Parcel
Listed on National Register of Historic Places: May 16, 2008
Blogged here.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
29 photos
Mt. Olive, Illinois
12 photos
Doctors Building
12 photos
Spivey Building
23 photos
Spivey Building in East St. Louis.
St. Louis Demolition Threats
40 photos
This set is mostly a feed for the Ecology of Absence blog.
Old North
163 photos
Photos from the Old North St. Louis neighborhood in St. Louis
Paducah, Kentucky
23 photos
Photos from vacation, November 2007.
Metropolis, Illinois
17 photos
Photos from a trip to Metropolis, Illinois in November 2007.
At Night
35 photos
Neon Signs
63 photos
The House on Sullivan
103 photos
Chronicle of the ongoing rehabilitation of a house on Sullivan Avenue in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood of St. Louis.
William H. Niedringhaus built the three-story mansard-roofed Italianate...
Thailand, April 2004
22 photos
In April 2004, I spent two weeks traveling in Thailand. Two weeks was enough time to realize that I needed two years to even begin to understand the country.
Read more about my experience here.