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Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, Bloomington, Illinois
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church is a masterpiece of Art-Deco architecture for worship spaces. Designed by Arthur F. Moratz, the church was built in 1934 with insurance money when the original...
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Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois
I suppose not every city can have a cemetery as amazing as St. Louis’s Bellefontaine Cemetery, but the Evergreen Cemetery is Bloomington’s entry into the competition. Simple, austere, with only a few...
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Corn Belt Bank Building, Bloomington, Illinois
The old Corn Belt Bank Building is an excellent example of Romanesque Revival skyscraper architecture, designed by George Miller in 1901. Louis Sullivan was already active, but by no means was his...
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Ensenberger Building, Bloomington, Illinois
The cool proto-modern Ensenberger, with elements of Art-Deco styling, has now been converted into condos. Designed by Arthur L. Pillsbury and Phillip Hooten, it opened in 1926. Apparently, the current...
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State Farm Insurance Building
Built according to plans by Archie Schaeffer and Phillip Hooton in 1929, the State Farm Insurance Building in downtown Bloomington was added on to repeatedly over the years. They moved out in 1974 to...
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Henry Bridge, Illinois
The river crossing at Henry Illinois over the Illinois River is a massive “Pennsylvania Through Truss” design built in 1933, replacing an earlier wood bridge. Since river traffic still makes it this...
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Mount Vernon Cemetery, Washburn, Illinois
Update: Thanks to a reader, this has been identified as Mount Vernon, Linn or Cazenovia Cemetery. Occasionally, driving a lonely back road, we come across a cemetery without a name, and we stop and...
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DePue, Illinois
Located far up the Illinois River, where it bends to the east north of St. Louis, DePue sits on a lake off the main channel. The town has some amazing slipcovers on its old buildings in the downtown....
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Family Farm, August 2018
Things are looking good around the family farm, even if it has been a dry summer. The barns are now surrounded by grass and corn.
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Old Cottonwood Tree, August 2018
Against all odds, the last of five cottonwood trees planted several generations ago is still alive. The debris from when it was hit by lightning has been cleaned up since 2016.
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Princeton, Illinois
The weather was weird in Princeton when we came through, but it is a really beautiful town, with a long history going back before the Civil War. It has two “downtowns,” one down by the county...
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The House on Pleasantview Road, August 2018
It’s been a while since I’d photographed the house on Pleasantview Road, and I usually approached it from the south, and I was very surprised to see that there had been some dramatic changes. The back...
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Pleasantview Road and Irish Lane, August 2019
I went back to Pleasantview Road in early August, to see how things were. Below, I was shocked to discover the old farmhouse, which I had been photographing for years, had vanished, despite receiving...
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Washington, Illinois, August 2019
I returned to Washington, Illinois, and snapped a couple of quick photographs of the bank building on the square in downtown, which I realized I had not documented in a decade since these pictures. I...
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Dutch Lane, Washington Township, August 2019
Getting off of U.S. Highway 24 eastbound out of Peoria towards Washington, just to the north running parallel is Dutch Lane. It is one of those roads that is only a half mile north of sprawl, but is a...
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