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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 7, Keokuk Street Between Nebraska and Ohio Avenues
The east-west “Indian Tribe” streets in Dutchtown have a totally different feel from their north-south “State Streets” neighbors. The houses seem to have a much wider variety, do not seem to have been...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 8: Nebraska Avenue Between Meramec and...
Starting at Meramec Avenue and heading north on Nebraska Avenue, there is a whole wealth of beautiful single family houses. I suspect their close proximity to the former Maryville College south of...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 10: Nebraska Avenue Between Osage and Keokuk...
After Osage Street, the next block of Nebraska Avenue is one that I’ve looked at before, back in 2011; the first photo is the east side of the street. On the other side of the street, after the corner...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 11: Nebraska Avenue Between Keokuk and Chippewa...
Unfortunately, crossing over Keokuk, an abandoned and trash early Twentieth Century service station, and its sprawling, invasive and vacant parking lot waste a full third of the block heading up to...
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Fredericktown and Mine La Motte, Madison County
Fredericktown is the picturesque county seat of Madison County, Missouri, south of St. Louis quite a ways in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It was the site of a Civil War battle due to the...
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Farmington, St. Francois County
You might not care about Farmington, far to the south in St. Francois County, but it is very important to the St. Louis region, actually lending its name to the official name for the combined census...
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Senate and Salena Streets, Benton Park
Senate and Congress streets in Benton Park are perfect examples of my old maxim that the street grid of St. Louis were not designed by a central authority, but was laid out by private developers, even...
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Wisconsin Avenue and Environs, Benton Park
Heading away from Salena Street over to Wisconsin Avenue and other nearby streets, there are other Second Empire houses and storefronts. But again, as can be seen further down the block, there are...
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McNair Avenue from Arsenal to Lynch Streets
Heading north up McNair Avenue from Arsenal Street there is a mix of older exurban houses, such as the one below, with an original alley house, with the later Second Empire examples. The remnants of a...
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Thirteenth Street, Soulard
The giant Romanesque Revival mansion above, sitting on the crest of the hill above Soulard on 13th Street, wouldn’t have been built when Compton and Dry was drawn in 1875. But some of the houses were...
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Twelfth Street Between Allen and Lami
Twelfth Street through Soulard was the major street if there ever was one, and it still holds some of the more famous businesses in the neighborhood. Like Thirteenth, it held the more important and...
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Geyer Avenue and Environs, Soulard
The house above is on Menard right on the interstate; there are in-fill houses being built right next to it on a little triangle of land. Below, on Geyer, we see some of the oldest houses in Soulard,...
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St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church
Dating from 1909, St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church was completed in 1929. There seems to have been some work on the dome in the years since I first photographed the building through an alley...
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Chippewa Street from Virginia to Oregon Avenues, Gravois Park
Hold on to your seats, because I need to do some explaining. In between Jefferson Avenue and Grand Boulevard, Chippewa Street bisects two neighborhoods, Gravois Park to the north, and Dutchtown to the...
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Chippewa Street Between Tennessee and Virginia Avenues, Gravois Park
Between Tennessee and Virginia avenues, Chippewa Street is almost entirely residential, and the buildings are a mixture of different revival styles from around the year 1900. They are in great shape,...
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Chippewa Street Between Arkansas and Tennessee Avenues, Gravois Park
Just west of Arkansas, prosperity ironically led to the annihilation of the historic buildings due to the need for parking lots for a bank. To the southwest, of course, was the old St. Anthony’s...
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Chippewa Street Between Compton and Tennessee Avenues, Dutchtown
We now jump to the south side of Chippewa Street, and we are magically in Dutchtown! The house above is somewhat famous for the huge weeds that sometimes swallow it in the summer. Now that Fall of...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 12: Keokuk Street Between Arkansas and...
We pick up our Beauty of Dutchtown series where we left off with Part 11, now on Keokuk Street, northwest of Marquette Park. The brick masons used different colors of brick to make little designs, and...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 13: Virginia Avenue Between Keokuk and Chippewa...
Heading up Virginia Avenue, we have firmly left the Victorian Age; the playful styles of the Nineteenth Century are gone, and we now see architecture that is far more rectilinear and severe. It is...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 14: Michigan Avenue Between Meramec and...
The first one hundred feet of the quiet one block stretch of Michigan Avenue between Meramec Street at St. Anthony of Padua, and Gasconade Street at Marquette Park near the pool house, seems normal...
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