I left my Heart in Quincy?!!??

[Ex-Ithacan]

One of the first stops on my trip through the midwest was Quincy, Illinois. I had seen a couple of threads here about Quincy (Thundertubs did one a while back), and decided I had to check it out some day. The city has about 41,000 the micropolitan area has about 77,000. After some decline the city has made modest population gains the last two census. A Mississippi riverport, Quincy has a great stock of old buildings, though there are a bunch of empties and vacant lots. Not sure why I was so taken with the city, but I did enjoy my too brief tour. More pics and comments in this thread than previous, but what the heck.


Starting downtown:

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33. This one pissed me off.

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35. BOA

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36. OshKosh B'Gosh

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43. They had some hot tubs in there, but I didn't bring any swim trunks.

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46. I didn't see ANY shades of gray.

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The Dick & Bros. Brewery Complex - it's an oldie.

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Some residential:

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A few buildings on the Quincy University Campus:

72. Francis Hall (The main building)

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74. Dorm

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75. Dorm

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76. Dorm

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A few buildings on their own:

77. Hospital

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78. Public Housing

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79. The Quincy Museum (once pictured on the National Geographic)

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Finally the 8th Street business corridor.

80. City Hall

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88. The Post Office and Courthouse Building

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Thanks for the brief affair dear Quincy.

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Hope you enjoyed.

[ColDayMan]

Absolutely stunning little city.

[DetroitSky]

Looks like a really cool place. Thanks for the photos!

[DeBaliviere]

I feel like this is what Hannibal, MO should look like.

[pip]

lol I mixed this city up with Cairo Illinois. All the time while looking at this thread yesterday I thought to myself wow how this City has changed dramatically since I saw the last thread of Cairo!

Good photos

[boden]

Interesting little city. Great photos!

[kcexpress69]

Very well represented in this thread!! Quite a few gems in the downtown area. Empty, sure. But cleaned up fairly well. There were a few nice houses that you shot as well!! Thanks for the tour!!

[dc_denizen]

Lol, I flipped through this whole thread thinking this was quincy, Mass!

[Sherman Cahal]

Beautiful - but No. 47 is just awful!

[j korzeniowski]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Absolutely stunning little city.

exactly the word that kept coming to mind while scrolling through the pics.

looks much bigger than its population of 41,000 would lead one to believe.

i drove through briefly, but would love to explore some more. i believe there is an amtrak line that goes there from chicago.

[Steely Dan]

absolutely fantastic thread. thanks for sharing. the amount of substantial 19th/early 20th century masonry building stock is impressive for such a small city. the city forefathers were certainly dreaming big and obviously expected quincy to become a place of more consequence than it ended up becoming.

Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

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WOW! i've seen a lot of bad in my day, but this might just be the worst building i've ever seen. i mean, you have to have a grudge against humanity itself to design a building that awful.

junior draftsmen: "do you think the people who use this building might want some bigger windows for daylight?"

architect: "no! make the windows as inhumanely small as possible."

[Ex-Ithacan]

Hey guys, thanks for the comments. I could have explored the city for at least another day.

I agree that the building in pic 47 is ...... shall I say "strange" looking. But the one in pic 33 is a disgrace for what the NBC station did to the first floor.

[Thundertubs]

I've been through Quincy twice. It's such a quintessential Midwestern river city. Some of the best architecture in Illinois (except for that thing in pic 47). Great tour, Ith.

[rockyi]

I was going through these photos thinking this town has a really fantastic stock of buildings.....#47 momentarily ruined the moment. It looks like a senior detention center.
Great thread, Tom.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Thanks Tt & rock. Maybe I should delete that Senior detention center pic, eh?

[rockyi]

Nah....You're showing it like it is.

[DKHARTSHORN]

Was born in Quincy. This was fun to look at. I went back to Quincy every Summer to stay with my Granny. She lived across from the Masonic Lodge. I sat on the shoe in the statue at Washington park and went to Washington Theater every weekend with .25. These were times I never want to forget. Great town I was never afraid to walk uptown alone. The firework on the River at the fourth were awesome!

[IMADreamer]

We basically have to go to Quincy to do any shopping. It's a neat little city. A couple times a year they will do a historic homes tour which I highly recommend checking out.

[mrnyc]

approved!

[Murphy de la Sucre]

First time to know Quincy il, never heard before, but it seems to be a decent city witha proper skyline...any skyline photos? did you find good spots or angles?