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Survivors, Westminster Place, Grand Center
A reader alerted me to a beautiful street of homes in Grand Center hiding in the shadow of the Coronado Building on Lindell. Westminster Place, perhaps more famous for its stretch through the Central...
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Plaza Square Apartments
So the sadly ugly Plaza Square Apartments are now considered ‘historic’ (note: I believe some Mid-Century Modern buildings are worth of historic designation). Designed by the architectural firm of...
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St. Louis Avenue, JeffVanderLou, Revisited
I know for a fact that the one of these houses, either the one on the far left or the one second from right, now trashed was occupied the last time I looked at these houses. I distinctly remember...
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North Side of Delmar
There’s been a lot of talk of “North of Delmar” recently, so I thought it would be interesting for me to drive down Delmar, starting in the Central West End in the west and ending at Vandeventer...
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Just One Front Porch
I was standing around on a front porch in Grand Center of a house that has somehow survived the devastation that has continued to plague the area as the quest for more parking lots and vacant lots...
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The North Side, West of Grand but East of Kingshighway
I was driving around a bunch, getting out and taking pictures here and there, so I’m not sure where most of these photos are. I know the one below is in the Ville, directly across from the old Homer...
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Bohemian Hill, In Transition
Last week, I went to the grand opening of the new Fields Foods grocery store, which sits in the remnants of the Bohemian Hill neighborhood. Sliced, diced and demolished into a shadow of itself over...
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Friedens Church, Hyde Park, More Thoughts
A faithful reader sent me some old photographs from her old church in Hyde Park, the Friedens German Evangelical Church. Its second incarnation is still standing, but as the Compton and Dry view...
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The Old Stag Brewery’s Legacy, Belleville
There’s not much left of the old Stag Brewery in the northwest corner of the historic central area of Belleville. There’s the office building, which looks to be from around the 1940′s, and the...
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Union Station Renovations to the Train Shed
The concourse at Union Station has been cleared of its intrusive shops, and has returned to an appearance that is closer to its heyday.
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Raphael and St. Louis
The Church of St. John the Evangelists and Apostle sits in the midst of the Plaza Square development, and is an interesting church in its own right, dating back to the years before the Civil War. It...
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Zion German Evangelical Church
Dating from 1871, the Zion German Evangelical Church sits in splendid isolation, with only a parking lot and cemetery surrounding it. The congregation, which still exists, dates from 1838. It is...
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Washington Avenue, Central West End
It never ceases to amaze me that the fortunes of a neighborhood can be so finite across ward boundaries, as they are in the Central West End. Look at these houses; they would go for a fortune south...
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South Side of Lindell
Lindell was originally lined with mansion, and most of them were swept away in redevelopment, some of which is itself historic now. But it must have been truly incredible to ride in a carriage down...
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Historic Churches, Cairo, Illinois
From the Roman Catholic church above, to more humble buildings such as the abandoned, wood frame church below, the wealth and population is exhibited in Cairo’s churches.
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Kirkwood Junction
Along with various Webster Groves stations, the Kirkwood railroad station served generations of commuters to downtown and other locations. It still serves as an Amtrak station. The architecture is...
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Fox Park, Revisited
Fox Park is in transition; it has many beautiful streets, many troubled ones, but one thing remains: it has amazing housing stock, much of it older than nearby Tower Grove East to the west or even...
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Marine Villa, Revisited
Few people have heard of Marine Villa, but its the neighborhood south of Cherokee Street and east of Broadway/Jefferson, more of less. It seems to have developed slowly, in the rural areas south of...
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