Springfield, Missouri
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I guess I'm doing a series on Commercial Street in Springfield! I didn't realize that until I looked back over this past week, and saw a theme. The old buildings are fascinating, and many are getting a second, third, or fourth life...
Springfield....my town. This is the older part of the city, but is now full of trendy restaurants and fun places to shop.
A beautiful home, right here in town....looks like such a happy place. I wonder if they’d like a guest during the “quarantine”.....
This was a grain storage facility for Budweiser back in the day. I caught it just as a storm was moving in, and loved the silhouette. I also really liked the reflection of sunlight in the windows.
Sadly, Speedy was nowhere to be found, so I was not able to partake of anything that might have caused me to shout, “Cowabunga!”
A trip to the beautiful Nathanael Greene Park here in Springfield is always a great way to spend an afternoon in autumn....
Another Ozarks barn, with a special touch. Look closely at the front of the barn and you’ll see an amazing shadow of that tree beside it. I couldn’t figure out exactly what it was at first; thought maybe it was someone’s artistic painting. Nope....Morher Nature’s magic.
Surprisingly little information online, other than it was built in 1927. It appears that the cottages are probably now rented as apartments. I always love these little buildings constructed with native "giraffe stone". (I actually thought I had made up that expression when I was a child and we traveled through the Ozarks....)
The beautiful old rock building in Springfield's Fassnight Park....the bathhouse was constructed in 1927, and fieldstone from the area was used in its construction.
Liberty School was built north of Springfield, MO, in 1895. It was in use until 1951, and in 2008 it was moved to the Gray/Campbell homestead, which is the site of the oldest home in Springfield. It was restored and is in Nathaniel Greene Park.
A beautiful old home in Springfield with a unique landscaping plan---just let sunflowers take over! It is now a restaurant in a historic part of town.
I can't find any information about the Gateway building in the foreground. If you can help, I'd appreciate it! MFA towers loom in the distance, and you can see part of their emblem.
This is a Springfield landmark! It was built in 1927, and was originally used as an office building. In 1930, it became a hotel, and operated under several different names. It had a bowling alley in the basement and a garage in the back. Up until recently, it served as a shelter for the homeless...
An old abandoned bait shop and home owned by a family that I actually knew. Right on Route 66 in Springfield!
This was "imagined" at the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, MO. Vintage cars, trucks, motorcycles, hillbillies, biker dudes, music, food...wow! What a great time! My favorite moment came when I saw a lady pushing a stroller. I peeked inside, hoping to catch a glimpse of the sweet little one. To my surprise---there was no baby! Just a giant bag of fried pork rinds! And that, my friends, is a true picture of the Ozarks....
A colorful restaurant in a fabulous old building..."Fun little café with recipes inspired by the healthy cuisine of Peru and the Andes Mountains."
I pass this little spot when I go across town and it looks so cute....plus catering and outdoor seating!
A little walk through one of Springfield's older parks brought this scene to light. Here is some information...
"Fassnight Park is located at Meadowmere Street between Campbell and Grant Avenues. It contains 28 acres of land with trees and a stream. The Springfield Park Board purchased the land in 1924 from Conrad and Emma Fassnight, who had traveled to Springfield with their parents from Michigan in 1886. The foreman of the Fassnight Park project was Godfrey Messerli. He was greatly skilled as a stonemason and created bridges, the bathhouse, the swimming pool and other structures using the fieldstone and Carthage stone found in the area. The labor was done by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.).
In 1977 the entire park, including the swimming pool, had deteriorated because of erosion and the fact that the intricate stonemason's work was prohibitively expensive to repair. The pool was closed and the city considering demolishing the swimming pool and bathhouse and replacing them with new state-of-the-art facilities. In the end the city decided to renovate the pool and bathhouse and preserve their unique architecture. This may have been when the waterfall in the pool was removed.
In 1995 a $60,000 water slide was added to Fassnight Pool. It was intended to be a moneymaking venture, with its $3 (later $5) fee helping to fund the swimming pool. An extended pool deck including playground equipment inside the pool area was added later. In 1996 a hard-rubber water serpent was added to the pool. It was tethered to the floor of the shallow end.
Fassnight Park has one of Springfield's most popular pools. The Springfield-Greene County Park Board renovated Fassnight Pool in 2009, and it remains the largest pool in the parks system today."