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Family Farm, August 2011
It’s late summer, and things are looking good around the family farm.
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Abandoned Stuckey’s, South of Springfield, Illinois
With the sad demise of the Stuckey’s in Goodfield I had been photographing for several years, I was pleased to discover a run-down member of the chain off of I-55 south of Springfield.
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Deer Creek School
Much to our chagrin, the school in Deer Creek, Illinois, where my family had enjoyed a pancake breakfast twenty years ago, is no more. In a bizarre act, reminiscent of the destruction of the City...
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The Elms Restaurant, El Paso, Illinois
On US 24 through El Paso, Illinois, it’s impossible to miss this grand dame of the Italianate style, sitting in between the highway and the railroad tracks. While obviously originally a single family...
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El Paso, Illinois
I took a short drive around the town of El Paso and saw some hidden gems, such as this library, which almost looks like a fortress of knowledge. The house above has been immaculately restored, and...
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Return to the Farmhouse on Pleasantview Road
I made it by the old farmhouse near my family’s farm that I’ve been photographing for the last couple of years, and as the summer passes by, so does time on the clapboards of the old house. I’ve...
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Redevelopment at Pleasantview School, Washington Township, Central Illinois
Woah, something has been happening at the old Pleasantview School! We learned from our family’s friend (and distant cousin to my father, possibly six degrees removed) who had actually attended the...
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The Old Farmhouse, Pleasantview Road
Amazing how a change of seasons and the passage of over half a year can change a building. The old farmhouse outside of Washington, Illinois, is still clinging to life, but as you can see from...
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The House on Pleasantview Road, Surviving Another Summer
The house on Pleasantview Road is still standing.
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Irish Lane, Unzicker Road and Pleasantview Road, Washington Township, Illinois
Due to the increased productivity of farm machinery, there simply is not as much of a need for individual farmsteads. They increasingly are abandoned, their buildings disappearing one by one. The...
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Damaged Barn Still Standing, Washington, Illinois
Somehow, perhaps merely for sentimental reasons, the owner of the severely damaged, but historic barn on the edge of the sprawl in Washington, Illinois, is still standing.
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Barns, Family Farm, Deer Creek Township, Illinois
The two historic barns on the family farm are looking good; freed from the muddy cattle lots which surrounded them for decades, they now sit in green grass and ground cover.
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Down by the River, Peoria, Illinois
Peoria is really a cool city; architecturally it reminds me of a lot of mid-sized Illinois cities: lots of four-squares and wood, balloon frame houses with interesting ornamentation. Unlike St....
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Up on the Bluffs, Peoria, Illinois
The West Bluff Historic District, sitting high up on the bluffs above downtown Peoria and just off of Main Street, is one of the most spectacular and well-preserved late-Nineteenth Century...
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Abandoned Church, Main Street, Peoria, Illinois
Right at the intersection of Main and High Streets, this magnificent church sits in splendid abandonment. It’s strange, since it sits right at the entrance of the West Bluff Historic District. Surely...
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Civil War Memorial, Peoria, Illinois
Dedicated in 1899, the stunning Civil War Memorial in Peoria is one of the more unique and memorable monuments to the war I have seen, and I can assure you I’ve seen plenty living in Washington, DC....
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Franklin Park and East of Downtown, Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington’s east side possesses a wealth of architecture, well maintained, healthy and classic. Here are some of the houses I saw. Heavy on the Italianate, and then on the Queen Anne Style, as many...
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First Baptist Church, Bloomington, Illinois
I find a lot of Romanesque Revival churches a bit interesting, in that while they possess the decorative and stylistic elements of the Romanesque, they frequently possess the massing of a Gothic church.
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