McPike Mansion

McPike Mansion, or Mount Lookout, is a mansion in Alton, which is part of the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Type: Tourist attraction
Description: building in Illinois, United States
Also known as: “Mount Lookout”
Address: 2018 Alby Street, Alton, IL 62002

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Guertler House and Alton Military Prison.

Guertler House

House

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The Guertler House is a historic house located at 101 Blair St. in Alton, Illinois. Stonemason Ignaz Bruch built the house in 1854. Bruch, who immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1846, was a prominent Illinois stonemason who constructed buildings in cities ranging from Chicago to St. Guertler House is situated 1,900 feet south of McPike Mansion.

Alton Military Prison

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The Alton Military Prison was a prison located in Alton, Illinois, built in 1833 as the first state penitentiary in Illinois and closed in 1857. During the American Civil War, the prison was reopened in 1862 to accommodate the growing population of Confederate prisoners of war and ceased to be prison at the end of the war in 1865. Alton Military Prison is situated 1 mile south of McPike Mansion.

Haskell Playhouse

Building

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The Haskell Playhouse is a children's playhouse located in Haskell Park in Alton, Illinois. Dr. William Abraham Haskell, a physician and one of the wealthiest residents of Alton, commissioned the playhouse as a present for his daughter Lucy's fifth birthday in 1885. Haskell Playhouse is situated 3,500 feet southeast of McPike Mansion.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alton and Godfrey.

Alton

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Alton is a charming river town in Illinois just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. Once a blue collar town of heavy manufacturing, Alton has transformed itself into a tourist destination and wedding and reception resort of the Midwest.

Godfrey

Town

Godfrey is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 17,825 at the 2020 census. Godfrey is located within the River Bend portion of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Godfrey is situated 3½ miles north of McPike Mansion.

East Alton

Village

East Alton is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,786 at the 2020 census, down from 6,301 in 2010. East Alton is situated 4½ miles southeast of McPike Mansion.

McPike Mansion

Categories: building, house, and tourism
Location: Alton Township, Madison, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.90606° or 38° 54′ 22″ north

Longitude

-90.18364° or 90° 11′ 1″ west

Open location code

86CFWR48+CG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 767805704

OpenStreetMap feature

building=house

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q6802616

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In Other Languages

“McPike Mansion” goes by many names.

Italian: “Villa McPike”

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