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Macon, Sixteen Years Later
Fast forward to February, and I was back in Macon for the first time in sixteen years, and this is what I saw. There were some fresh coats of paint, here and there. The former bank building has a new...
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Shelbina, February 2024
It seems like I visit Shelbina every eight years. The first time, in 2008, I photographed a beautiful building that was sadly destroyed by fire. In 2016, I went deeper, seeing more of the gorgeous...
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The Other Gateway to the West: St. Joseph
I was giving a lecture in St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwestern corner of the state, and lo and behold, I found one of the most architecturally rich cities in the Midwest, if not in the whole...
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Joseph Robidoux IV and Jesse James, St. Joseph
Joseph Robidoux House, Built 1840, Photograph c. 1916, State Historical Society of Missouri It was a little later, in 1843, that St. Joseph was incorporated as a city, laid on the groundwork of a...
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The Pony Express and Patee House, St. Joseph
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, John Patee, and Samuel A Richmond. Patee House Hotel, South Twelfth & Penn Streets, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO. Missouri Saint Joseph Buchanan...
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The Stockyards and Industry Today, St. Joseph
L.G. Bigelow, St. Joseph Stockyards, c. 1904, State Historical Society of Missouri Opening in 1887, the St. Joseph Stockyards was just one indication of the importance of the city to the burgeoning...
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Two Downtown Movie Theaters, St. Joseph
St. Joseph possesses two fantastic historic theaters in its downtown from two different eras. The first, the Missouri Theater, was built in a sort of Moorish Revival in 1927. Waylande Gregory was the...
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Three Downtown Office Buildings, St. Joseph
We’ll look at three important buildings in downtown St. Joseph; the first up is the Corby-Forsee Building, designed by the St. Louis architecture firm of Eames and Young, opening in 1910. Due to its...
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Civic Buildings, St. Joseph
The Buchanan County Courthouse in downtown St. Joseph is perhaps one of the most public impressive buildings I’ve seen in America. Constructed in 1873 and still largely identical in appearance other...
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Three Churches, St. Joseph
Originally organized in 1854, the current First Presbyterian Church dates from 1911, sitting at the corner of 7th and Jules streets. Bryan, John Albury. Missouri’s Contribution to Architecture. St....
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St. Joseph Roman Catholic Cathedral
Sitting on a ridge that gives its name to Cathedral Hill, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph dominates the eastern end of the slope. Surrounded by intact urban fabric, the cathedral’s brick...
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Hall Street, Cathedral Hill, St. Joseph
The 600 through 800 blocks of Hall Street in St. Joseph contain some of the stunning houses in America, and running the gamut of different architectural styles and ornament. It is north of downtown...
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Around Hall Street, Cathedral Hill, St. Joseph
There’s more amazing architecture to the west on the slopes of Cathedral Hill, which we examined at different times of the day and dates. There has been some recent in-fill on what had been a recently...
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North Twelfth Street, Cathedral Hill, St. Joseph
Over on the east side of Cathedral Hill, north of Frederick Street, is just another street full of amazing houses, just giving an impression of the architectural richness of St. Joseph.
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Krug Park and Two Cemeteries, St. Joseph
One of the focal points of St. Joseph is Krug Park, which is a fairly rugged plot of land on the northern side of the city. There is a system of parkways that connects much of the city (and is...
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Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph
Established in 1851, Mount Mora owes its current design to W. Angelo Powell in 1872. Like most of the cemeteries I show, this is a product of the rural cemetery movement begun at Père Lachaise...
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Museum Hill, Part One, St. Joseph
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Calvary Chapel in St. Joseph, the principal city in the northwest corner of Missouri. United States Saint Joseph Missouri, 2021. -03-31. Photograph. Library of...
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Museum Hill, Part Two, St. Joseph
Not all of Museum Hill is so elaborate. This portion of the neighborhood is down near the Patee House, which we already looked at. There are many more duplexes in what was clearly a more working class...
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Fort D, Cape Girardeau
I was excited to learn there was a surviving Civil War era fort remaining in Cape Girardeau, high on a strategic hill on the south side of downtown. For whatever reason, it was never destroyed and...
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Late Summer Odds and Ends
I have some leftover photos from the summer that I needed to clear out. Above, this house has collapsed on West Florissant Avenue just north of Grand Boulevard in the College Hill neighborhood,...
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