{"id":234,"date":"2010-05-20T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2012-04-10T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:47:27","slug":"murphy-building-in-east-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Murphy Building in East St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=53cc4c205cba59e51a324528489596d4&amp;zoom=18&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Murphy Building Stairwell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57319697@N00\/4475694321\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4475694321_50774edcea.jpg\" alt=\"Murphy Building Stairwell\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Murphy Building Stairwell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57319697@N00\/4475694321\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Murphy Building stands within a stonesthrow of the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=218\" target=\"_blank\">Spivey Building<\/a>. If you look closely in top photo above, you can see vegetation growing in the brickwork. Getting up to the higher floors now requires an explorer to exit a second story window and walk up a rickety steel fire escape, as the main stairwell has crumbled into the ground floor. I did not have the stomach climbing out onto the fire escape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4475693941_5b24a1c837.jpg\" alt=\"MURPHY BLDG.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from this photo the Murphy Building has a beautifully adorned entrance. Vandals have already taken some of the mason work from the higher floor. There isn&#8217;t much that remains inside from the time the building was in operation. It is easily accessible, though you will need a flashlight to navigate your way through the basement as no sunlight shines in. The beauty shop, which must have been open for business after the main Murphy Building closed, is accessible through this way.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Murphy Building Facade\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57319697@N00\/4476471448\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4476471448_59d3716954.jpg\" alt=\"Murphy Building Facade\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research Links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.builtstlouis.net\/eaststlouis\/downtown-murphybuilding.html\" target=\"_blank\">Built St. Louis &#8211; Murphy Building Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eco-absence.org\/esl\/mur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecology of Absence &#8211; Murphy Building<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/11703908\" target=\"_blank\">Panoramino &#8211; The Majestic Theater and Murphy Building<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/80105504@N00\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr Group &#8211; East St. Louis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/groups\/?q=murphy&amp;m=pool&amp;w=80105504%40N00&amp;s=int\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr Search &#8211; Murphy Building<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Murphy Building stands within a stonesthrow of the Spivey Building. If you look closely in top photo above, you can see vegetation growing in the brickwork. Getting up to the higher floors now requires an explorer to exit a second story window and walk up a rickety steel fire escape, as the main stairwell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,22],"tags":[86,131,150,226,230,570,316,333,430,578],"geo":{"latitude":38.6275215,"longitude":-90.1581192,"description":"East St Louis, IL, USA"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}