Constructed in 1889, the Ryan Block is a good example of a late 19th century commercial building with late Victorian styling. The building is located at 1137-41 Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Constructed in 1889, the Ryan Block is a good example of a late 19th century commercial building with late Victorian styling. The building is located at 1137-41 Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Historic rows along Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Row homes along Frederick Avenue in Downtown St. Joesph, Missouri.
Constructed in 1889, the Ryan Block is a good example of a late 19th century commercial building with late Victorian styling. The building is located at 1137-41 Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Which panels do you prefer, the beige ones or the light brown ones. Jesus what a huge Silverado.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, at the former Einbender's clothing store (closed in 1988) at the southeast corner of South 5th Street and Felix Street.
Behind the siding is a building from circa 1880.
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Would you look at this mess of mildew and peeling paint. ;)
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, at the former Einbender's clothing store (closed 1988) at the southeast corner of Felix Street and South 5th Street.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, in an alley between South 5th Street and South 6th Street, south of Edmond Street.
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No I'm just kidding, this isn't ours and there's probably not a living room inside.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, the backside of 213 S 4th St (built sometime between circa 1863 and 1881, a "contributing property" in the South Fourth Street Commercial Historic District, 91000124 on the National Register of Historic Places; listed as 209-211 S 4th St in the historic district documentation form) in an alley between South 4th Street and South 5th Street, south of Edmond Street.
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In an urban setting!
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, in an alley between South 5th Street and South 6th Street, south of Edmond Street.
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The openness of the parking lot makes the buildings easy to see.
Here were four former warehouses (L to R):
• the Brittain-Richardson & Co. Building, built 1882, now a/k/a the "Historic Brittain Richardson Building Loft Apartments"
• the Englehart-Winning & Co., north building, built 1884, now part of the "Fourth Street Lofts"
• the Englehart-Winning & Co., south building, built 1880, now part of the "Fourth Street Lofts"
• the R. L. McDonald and Co. Building, built 1880, now a/k/a the "Lofts at Landmark"
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, the backs of buildings on the west side of North 4th Street, south of Jules Street, as viewed from North 3rd Street.
The four buildings were designed by E.J. Eckel and comprise the Wholesale Row Historic District, 77000800 on the National Register of Historic Places.
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I would like it more if it didn't stop partway up the wall.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, at the northeast corner of South 5th Street and Charles Street.
According to page 51 of this architectural survey, the building (213-217 S 5th St) is from 1909.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, a side view of the Tootle Building, later known as the Light and Power Building (built 1923 with the fifth floor added later; a "contributing property" in the St. Joseph Commercial and Banking Historic District, 01000709 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of Francis Street and North 6th Street, as viewed from the southeast corner of Francis Street and North 5th Street.
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"VERILY YON VOUSSOIRS alternate between brick and stone don't they," I thundered as I took pictures from a vulnerable position in the expansive driveway of a busy gas station across the street.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, 205-207 S 4th St (built circa 1875, a "contributing property" in the South Fourth Street Commercial Historic District, 91000124 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the east side of South 4th Street, south of Edmond Street.
The building formerly had a third floor.
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I make a big show of personally preferring the plain red brick walls at the rear to the ornamented terra-cotta-'n'-beige-brick walls at the front.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, the Corby-Forsee Building (designed by Eames and Young, opened May 1, 1910, with the top floor added in 1927, 80002317 on the National Register of Historic Places, located in the St. Joseph Commercial and Banking Historic District, 01000709 on the National Register of Historic Places, now known as Corby Place, site of Corby Place Senior Living) at the southwest corner of Felix Street and South 5th Street, as viewed from the southeast corner of Edmond Street and South 4th Street.
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Yea a real estate listing from 2021 says it's a fiveplex. It also asserts that it was built in 1930, but I looked at some old St Joseph city directories at the Library Edition of Ancestry.com and that does not appear to be true. A service station was located here into the 1950s at least.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, at the southeast corner of Jules Street and North 6th Street.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, at the southwest corner of Edmond Street and South 5th Street.
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Yea it is a city-owned parking garage. The city is St. Joseph, Missouri.
I HAVE DECIDED that the parking garage is from the 1970s, on this basis: A different parking garage, also city-owned, a couple of blocks away, has a nearly identical architectural style, and this 1976 document says it was under construction at that time. Voilá, the 1970s.
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, a city-owned parking garage at the northeast corner of North 6th Street and Jules Street.
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The joke is the idea that this is somebody's house.
"It is comfortable, small. See how the windows are decoratively mocked by the dark red frames beneath them. I adore painted stucco."
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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, a building on the east side of South 5th Street, south of Edmond Street.
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