Historic Block Houses In The Hawthorne Neighborhood

Photos By John Hoff

There are a number of "block houses" in Hawthorne, including Jeff's new apartment. I'm told that...

...the material for the blocks came from clay obtained near the Mississippi River, but I haven't confirmed that. It seems pretty plausible, though.

As you can see from the middle photo, some people get bad ideas in their head about slapping ugly additions on to historic block houses. It's not a perfect world. Sometimes bad things happen to good buildings.

Anderson Mitchell owns a house which is the wonder and glory of renovate blockhouses in the Hawthorne Neighborhood. I should get a picture of it some time.