Clik here to view.
Deeper into the O’Fallon Neighborhood #3
The beautiful houses continue on the streets right next to O’Fallon Park, with a mixture of interesting architectural styles from the late Nineteenth to early Twentieth centuries. The street grid of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #4, John Avenue #1
There are more beautiful houses on John Avenue, and a few are occupied, but the vast majority are abandoned, and rapidly deteriorating. Much of the hill north of Grand Boulevard before it slopes down...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #5, John Avenue #2
John Avenue continues to have a wide range of houses, many in the Second Empire style and also some Italianate influences mixed in. Many houses are abandoned, but there is a fair amount of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #9: Gano Avenue #3
This little house, which is still occupied, sits right next to three two-family houses, which have now fallen into abandonment. I had seen them in the past, like this shot from February of 2017 (third...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #16: 1400 Block of DeSoto Avenue
DeSoto Avenue used to be completely hidden from the rest of the world by the thick underbrush the blanketed the hill north of East Prairie Avenue. It has now been cleared, and the feeling is one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #17: 1500-1900 Block of DeSoto Avenue
Moving west on DeSoto Avenue, there is not much to say beyond the first house above, which is well-maintained and occupied. The blocks moving west are empty, vacant and deteriorating. It is deeply...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #23: 2000-2100 Blocks of Linton
We met a homeowner in one of those HUD houses, as we call them, who’d lived in the neighborhood for forty years. We talked for a while and discussed the house next door, with a mysterious terracotta...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #26: Zealand Street at College Avenue
There are many well-maintained streets, such as Zealand Avenue (second photo), in College Hill, where we saw homeowners sweeping their sidewalks out in front of their bungalows. But there is also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Hill in the Snow #29: 1500 and 1900 Blocks of College Avenue
College Avenue is an interesting mix of buildings, to say the least. There is the famous house above, and there is the stately Tudor Revival house below. We first spotted the house above in May of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South Down 20th Street from the Grand Water Tower, Part 2
Back in January of this year, I took pictures of the east side of the 20th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood, and in February, I came back, this time photographing the west side of the street....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mystery Houses
Update: Identified as 4370 Cook Avenue in the greater Lewis Place neighborhood. I have no idea where this is. I lost track of the location, and when I tried Googling the name of the church on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bircher Boulevard
Historic aerial photography reveals that Bircher Boulevard used to be just that, a tree-lined, elegant boulevard in North St. Louis, separating the Penrose and Walnut Park neighborhoods. But then...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5500 Block of Cates Avenue
Just more of the beautiful, eclectic architecture that you see in the West End continues on Cates Avenue north of the old St. Luke’s Hospital. Look at the wood carving on the porch below. The house...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vernon and Raymond Avenues, and Environs
I’ve long said that I think the architecture of North St. Louis is more impressive than that of South St. Louis, and I stand by that. I know many of my friends in the preservation business who agree...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cote Brilliante Avenue, Revisited
Cote Brilliante Avenue starts out nice enough just northeast of the intersection of Kingshighway and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, but it quickly turns bad the further you go east. You might recognize...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Venice, Revisited
I have no idea what the house, I dubbed the “Fight Club” house is used for, but it is still standing, whether occupied or not. I first came over to Venice to see the demolition of their high school...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Granite City, Revisited
I looked around the residential areas north of Niedringhaus Avenue in Granite City back in early April. The town’s heart is still the steel mill, which lies on the southeastern part of town, but the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jefferson Avenue, Between Winnebago and Utah
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that I created a new Special Topics tag a month or so entitled “South Jefferson.” South of Interstate 44, the original Nineteenth Century streetscape is incredibly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jefferson Avenue, Between Utah and Arsenal
Continuing north, we see the west side of Jefferson between Utah and Arsenal. The house below of course was the residence of one of the owners of the Cherokee Brewery. Below on the left is the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jefferson Avenue, Between Arsenal and Gravois
Continuing north, here is the west side of Jefferson between Arsenal and Gravois. From here, this is Jefferson from Gravois south to Arsenal.
View Article