Nauvoo Illinois Magnet

Nauvoo sits on a prominent bend of the Mississippi River, historically significant as a 19th-century religious settlement. The skyline is famously dominated by the massive, limestone Nauvoo Temple, which sits atop a hill overlooking the river flats and historic homesteads below. From a distance, the town presents a grand, almost ethereal horizon where the white stone of the temple contrasts sharply with the blue of the river and the vast Illinois sky. The orderly grid of the lower town provides a graphic, structured look to the landscape.