Water Treatment Plant, Peoria, Illinois

I don't know much about this building, other than it seems to still be in use as a water treatment facility.It's a great example of Romanesque Revival architecture.

Delta Wing Gas Station, Peoria, Illinois

Hofbrau Haus, Peoria, Illinois

Peoria County Courthouse

Amidst the desertion of downtown Peoria on the weekend, we came across this magnificent example of modernist architecture from the 1950's. Read about it here.

Joan's Trophy

St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois

This massive medical campus dominates the hill above downtown Peoria. See it from the air here.

Commerce Bank Building, Peoria, Illinois

It seems that every major city in America had that one distinctive skyscraper back in the day. Peoria's is definitely the Commerce Bank Building, built in 1920 and designed by the firm Hewitt & Emerson.


Next door is an additional tower, designed in the Modernist style of architecture and linked by a one store connecting structure to the older building.

Adkins Apartments, Peoria, Illinois

I was going to photograph one of the weirdest collections of buildings in Peoria, but of course, when I got there, it had already been demolished. If you look at the cluster of buildings here, just to the left of the red roofed building, a great German restaurant, you can see what once stood there. I loved the funky concrete block wall, which strangely has so far avoided demolition.

Peoria, Illinois

Public Housing, Peoria