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Cold Storage Warehouses, Near North Riverfront, October 2018
It’s been a couple of years since I came down here to take pictures of the old cold storage warehouses, and to see how they’ve been doing. It’s been almost two years since the fire, and the old cold...
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Western Gravois Park
The terrain goes back up from the valley down at Compton Avenue where it reaches Grand Boulevard. There is an interesting mix of houses and apartment buildings. Most of the houses were built in the...
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South Side of Winnebago Street, Gravois Park #1
This is the third of three weeks on Thursdays and Fridays, where I’ve been looking at the three east-west streets parallel to Cherokee Street in Gravois Park, the neighborhood to the south of the...
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The 4400 Block of Gibson Avenue
I discovered that photographer Joel Sternfeld had created a series of photographs where various tragedies had occurred. He also photographed 4421 Gibson Avenue, in the Grove, where Christopher Harris...
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The Romanesque Revival Church, The Grove
I could have sworn I photographed this church back in the summer of 2014, when I passed by on Taylor Avenue. Apparently I did not, but I was impressed with the giant arches of this Romanesque Revival...
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Two South County Cemeteries, Revisited
I went back by Father Dickson Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery off of Sappington Road, which I visited back in 2015 for a story for St. Louis Magazine. It still looks great, and is a...
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Oelwein, Iowa
Oelwein still bustles because of a heavy railroad presence, and its location at the intersection of two highways. Its downtown is perhaps a bit smaller than others, as there are extensive...
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West Union, Iowa
West Union is the county seat of Fayette County, and thus has a larger amount of large houses that you would expect in such a town. Many are well-preserved or restored, including this rare...
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Clermont, Iowa
As I came over a high hill in the rugged northeastern corner of Iowa on U.S. Route 18, I looked down into the valley below and I could have sworn I was seeing a village in Vermont. As I entered the...
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From the Vault: Independence, Iowa
Continuing with my excursus of the fascinating and beautiful towns of northeastern Iowa, I dug deep into the St. Louis Patina vaults and found some photos I took of several other towns far from any...
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From the Vault: Dyersville, Iowa
I found some more photos from the vault of my September 2011 trip to northeastern Iowa, and this time it was the town of Dyersville, with a well-preserved main street of Italianate storefronts, many...
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JeffVanderLou, Mid November, 2018
I wanted to check up on JeffVanderLou, an area that straddles Grand Boulevard, and that is heavily affected by disinvestment, abandonment and demolition. There are still so many wonderful buildings...
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N. 25th Street, Hyde Park, Part #2
Heading south on N. 25th Street, more houses that have been restored or carefully maintained line the east side of the street. This houses has obviously had the front facade rebuilt halfway down the...
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St. Louis Avenue, Kingshighway to Cora
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets...
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St. Louis Avenue, Cora to Grand
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets...
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North Up Blair Avenue, Fall 2018
Blair Avenue gives you a great cross section of the neighborhoods just to the west of Interstate 70, which cut these working class areas from their traditional employment areas along the Near North...
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Calle Cherokee Mural
A really cool mural has appeared on the side of El Torito Grocery at the corner of Cherokee Street and California Avenue, which has recently received a historic marker sign for Calle Cherokee,...
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The Greater Ville in Extensus
I will be looking at the Greater Ville neighborhood for the next couple of weeks. I’ve looked at the Ville before, and for the purposes of this website, both official city neighborhoods are included...
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North Newstead Avenue, The Greater Ville
Newstead is a long street; it starts all the way down in the Grove, heads north through the Central West End and then finds itself in the Greater Ville. There have been some streetscape improvements,...
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3900 Block of Labadie, The Greater Ville
The eastern end of the Greater Ville has architecture that looks to be from the late Nineteenth Century, and that makes sense, being close to Vandeventer Avenue. Most, but not all, is multi-family,...
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