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Park Avenue Between Benton Place and Mississippi Avenue
The block between Benton Place and Mississippi Avenue is well-preserved, with many of its original houses from the 1870s still standing, but with some interesting twists and in-fill, both from the...
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Nebraska Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets, West Side
Heading north up Nebraska Avenue from Cherokee Street, there is a row of four-family flats on the west side of the street. They are technically identical in form, but they are individualized in their...
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Nebraska Avenue Between Utah and Wyoming Avenues, West Side
There are still some interesting four-family buildings north of Utah on Nebraska such as the one on the northwest corner above, but then the block turns over to two-family houses. As I’ve frequently...
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Nebraska Avenue Between Wyoming and Juniata Streets, West Side
What I really like about Benton Park West is that unlike some neighborhoods in St. Louis, the the perpendicular streets to not suffer for the “dominant” streets. Frequently perpendicular streets are...
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Nebraska Avenue Between Juniata and Arsenal Streets, West Side
When you factor in the little hump in front, and the half basement, your average house in St. Louis has a basement floor that is sitting at street level. It is no better illustrated than with this...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 21: Minnesota Avenue Between Delor and Itaska...
We’re picking up the “Rediscovering the Beauty of Dutchtown” series which was left off at Number 20. Whenever I come across a cluster of wood frame houses mixed in with later “suburban” brick houses...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 24: Minnesota Avenue Between Dakota and Osceola...
North of Dakota Street, Minnesota Avenue takes on a totally diverse character architecturally, with a wide variety of styles and sizes of houses. The two houses below are clearly twins, but the...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 30: Compton Avenue Between Meramec and...
You can immediately notice the effects of the heavy traffic on Compton Avenue south of Meramec Street; the block just has a different feeling. The architecture looks the same as on other streets in...
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Shenandoah Avenue, Michigan to Minnesota Avenues, North Side
I’ve always been intrigued by the architecture of Shenandoah Avenue in Tower Grove East; it is distinct and much older. It was obviously platted and developed earlier than the rest of the...
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Shenandoah Avenue, Minnesota to Pennsylvania Avenues, North Side
Moving east on the north side of Shenandoah Avenue between Minnesota and Pennsylvania, there is a wide variety of houses, and there is really no way to quantify one overall style. The house below...
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Mississippi Avenue Between Kennett Place and Park Avenue, Part One
Moving north of Kennett Place on Mississippi Avenue, we approach one of the most well-preserved stretches of Second Empire houses in St. Louis, and in Lafayette Square in general. But glancing at...
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Carroll Street Between Eighteenth and Grattan Streets, North Side
Heading east on Carroll Street from Eighteenth Street, we realize that the area east of the park was largely undeveloped by 1876, most likely to the presence of karst topography (there were caves in...
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Lafayette Avenue Between Dolman and Eighteenth Streets
We’ll first take a look at these nice houses on Dolman above, which would fit in well in Soulard, but then we turn right onto Lafayette Avenue, which has changed dramatically in the time when it was...
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Nicholson Place, Lafayette Square
I had always glanced down Nicholson Place while traveling down Lafayette Avenue, and had foolishly believed that the sadly truncated little street surely contained little history and few historic...
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From the Vault: Union Station Grand Hall, February 2014
Back in February of 2014, the Grand Hall of Union Station was just starting to undergo its massive renovation into its current incarnation. I snapped some pictures of the public areas. It turns out...
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James J. Hill House, St. Paul, Minnesota
The James J. Hill House sits at the beginning of Summit Hill, which heads out west along the top of the bluffs above downtown St. Paul, and just beyond the Cathedral of St. Paul. It is lined with...
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Summit Avenue Between Selby Avenue and Farrington Street, St. Paul, Minnesota
Summit Avenue is amazing, and it shows what can happen when a group of people get together and rehab a bunch of houses and don’t let them be demolished for “progress.” The following houses are from...
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Farrington Street and Laurel Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota
On the northwest corner of Summit Avenue and Farrington Street is this amazing Romanesque Revival mansion with some Renaissance Revival elements in the porches. They look like something I would see in...
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The Romanesque Revival Row, St. Paul, Minnesota
We came across this amazing row of seven houses at the southwest corner of Laurel Avenue and Nina Street just north of Summit Avenue. A perfect example of how the Romanesque Revival can be applied to...
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Minneapolis City Hall
Minneapolis City Hall is a magnificent pile of stone in the Romanesque Revival style, groundbreaking occurring in 1889 and the building being complete until 1906. It was originally used for both the...
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