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St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Charles
St. Joseph’s Hospital has been around since the Nineteenth Century, but what often happens is that the original buildings are torn down and replaced in the mid-Twentieth Century. Such is this case at...
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Chapel, St. Joseph’s Hospital
The giant curved wall which projects out from the facade of the hospital holds the chapel. Inside, the exterior brick continues around the chapel, and a unique, projecting skylight provides natural...
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Small Modernist Office Building, St. Charles
Up the hill from the famous Main Street shopping district, there are still a wealth of interesting buildings, such as the Mid-Century Modern office building by St. Joseph’d Hospital. Of particular...
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Old St. Charles County Courthouse
Designed by Jerome Legg, the second St. Charles courthouse was officially completed in 1913. It now houses the offices of the county executive, after having undergone restoration. It looks much better...
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Side Streets, St. Charles
The diversity of housing stock in the back streets of St. Charles’s historic inner neighborhoods is impressive, from the Second Empire house above, to the humble worker’s cottage below. Interestingly,...
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Italianate House, St. Charles
Located near the old courthouse in downtown St. Charles is this handsome little house, not huge, but somehow its presence sitting high up on this hill drew my eye to it. It’s sort of a mixture of...
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Queen Anne House, St. Charles
Moving up the hill, there is a row of houses that is anchored with a brick Queen Anne style house. With its complicated roof structure and fenestration on a hilly lot, it strikes quite the pose. It’s...
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Second Street Houses, St. Charles
Up above Main Street, on Second Street, are these wonderful Italianate cottages that look to be from the mid Nineteenth Century. Sometimes I get a little tired of all the flat roofs in St. Louis, and...
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Dickhaus-Stemme House, Daniel Boone Grave
The Dickhaus-Stemme House sits within a short walk of Daniel Boone’s Missouri grave. It’s a great example of Greek Revival architecture in a rural setting. The friendly owners have begun to assemble a...
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Immaculate Conception, Dardenne Prairie
Founded in 1880, Immaculate Conception was a quiet, rural parish for over a century. But that changed as St. Charles County exploded in population, and while the old church is too small and has been...
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They Don’t Build Them Like They Used To #7: Landslide!
St. Albans had some problems with roads washing out recently.
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Pacific Cemetery
Update: On July 29th, the vast majority of the stones were fixed by the amazing Franklin County Cemetery Society. Read my original article here. The City of Pacific’s cemetery was vandalized back in...
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Resurrection Hill Cemetery
Resurrection Hill Cemetery, an African-American burial ground, is tucked on hilly ground just north of I-44 on route OO. The road to the cemetery swoops up an incline, where there is a small parking...
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Downtown Pacific
I had never made it to downtown Pacific before, but it is very well preserved, and has some nice buildings. The opera house is built in an interesting, eclectic style, and is not something I have seen...
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Western Quarry, Pacific
I never expected to see these incredible quarries hollowed out of the rock face on the western side of Pacific. They are the standard type I see around the region; the mountain is shaved off, and then...
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Eastern Quarry, Pacific
Further east, there is another giant quarry hollowed out of the earth. The large swath of flat land out in front of the quarry holes has been rezoned as an industrial park. I would assume this land...
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Jefferson Avenue, St. Charles
The architecture of St. Charles is interesting, because it follows the same styles as St. Louis, but yet expresses them in a different way, more akin to small towns. For starters, the lots are not...
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Fifth Street and Environs, St. Charles
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo dominates the northeastern part of town away from St. Charles’s downtown. There are more beautiful examples of Second Empire and Italianate houses and...
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