Cairo Customs House - a photo on Flickriver

            The old customs house in Cairo is without a doubt the town's landmark building.  It was designed by Alfred B. Mullet, who also did the Executive Office Building in DC and the old post office in St. Louis, among other prominent Victorian government buildings.

Cairo is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at the extreme southern tip of Illinois but, in a way, it feels more like the northernmost point in the Delta.  At one point, Cairo was a major river city and transport hub, and the downtown appears to have stretched for blocks and blocks.  Almost everything there is abandoned now, with the greatest density of buildings at the center and only a few fragments left further away.  The latest Census projections show under 3,000 residents in a town that once had over 15,000 in the 1920s.

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Taken on: August 4, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i, f/7.1, 1/100 sec, 30mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	30mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	QuickTime 7.6.4
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