Downtown Springfield in Pictures

[slyder1]

Picture of the Year!

Clicky

Ha ha... thats pretty funny, but I wonder if the people did it to make fun or if they actually like him.

[slyder1]

Pretty cool aerial. Although I wish they would have panned over a little bit to get the actual "downtown" where the cluster of buildings are.

heres the link to look at the larger image: http://www.aerialphotoinc.com/api_high.jpg

[zman9810]

Here's a few downtown photos from a trip to Springfield. The first is the Hammons Tower at 22 stories and on a high spot. It really dominates the skyline and is set away from the historic downtown area as are most of the newer buildings downtown. This is what you see when you walk out the main entrance of Hammons Field.

These are two historic structures on Walnut Street immediately off of the new downtown area- very beautiful buildings.

These are some more of the newer tall buidldings downtown - right to left the Hammons Building (not to be confused with the Hammons Tower and all the other things named Hammons in Springfield- ) Park Place condos and Sunvilla Tower on the Missouri State University campus.

Street mural in the older part of downtown- a funky place with lots of history and potential. There have been some notable improvements in that area but there's a lot more that could be done.

Edited July 27, 2009 by zman9810

[slyder1]

Hey thanks for the pics zman. I like the last one with Sunvilla and One Park Place Condos, great angle. I guess you made a trip up here to watch the Naturals play at Hammons Field? Thanks for the photos!

BTW if you ever come up again, you should do it when the first friday art walk is going on... some great galleries downtown.

[zman9810]

Hey thanks for the pics zman. I like the last one with Sunvilla and One Park Place Condos, great angle. I guess you made a trip up here to watch the Naturals play at Hammons Field? Thanks for the photos!

BTW if you ever come up again, you should do it when the first friday art walk is going on... some great galleries downtown.

Yeah, I read about the First Friday Art Walk- sounds like a great event. I will have to make time for that next time I'm in town.

Here's a closeup of the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts on the MSU campus. Great location for this - right on campus and close to downtown.

Edited July 28, 2009 by zman9810

[slyder1]

^nice pic. Let me know when you come up again and I'll give you some recomendations on what galleries to visit.

[oursmartweb]

Is there anyway I can have one of your pictures?

Thanks.

Josh