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Frenchtown, St. Charles
North Second Street in St. Charles goes through an interesting neighborhood named Frenchtown, not to be confused with the area of the same name in St. Louis just south of downtown. This area was...
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Magnolia Avenue Between Virginia and Tennessee Avenues, North Side
I took a walk down Magnolia Avenue in Tower Grove East. There is a wide variety of different housing styles, and even a wonderful music school on the corner with Virginia, The Music Room....
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Tennessee Avenue Between Magnolia and Shenandoah Avenues, East Side
Heading north up Tennessee Avenue, there are more houses that come in pairs or in triplets. And again, most are actually two-families disguised to look like single-family houses. The architecture...
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Virginia Avenue Between Sidney Street and Halliday Avenue, East Side
I’m not going to apologize for or lay off my criticism of the crap that’s happening to innocent houses such as the one you see above and below. They’re the same house, before and after a certain firm...
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Missouri Avenue Between Ann and Shenandoah Avenues, McKinley Heights
I went and photographed the 2200 block of Missouri Avenue, walking north looking at the west side of the street until I reached Ann Avenue, and then turning around and photographing the east side. As...
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Former Delmar Avenue Baptist Church
The former Delmar Baptist Church at 4300 Delmar Boulevard, is a classic example of the Romanesque Revival style of houses of worship popular in the Central Corridor of the city. After leaving this...
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Former Compton Hill Congregational Church
Continuing our tour of cool Romanesque Revival churches in the Central Corridor, we next come to the Compton Hill Congregational Church, which is the original builder and owner of the building at the...
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Lafayette Park United Methodist Church
I knew there was something suspicious about the beautiful Lafayette Park Methodist Church on Lafayette Avenue, at the corner of Missouri Avenue. It just avoided being demolished for the construction...
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Lafayette Avenue Between Waverly and Simpson Places
The block of Lafayette Avenue heading west between Waverly and Simpson places is very well preserved, with five Second Empire houses, apparently built in two phases. The first house is the home of Dr....
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Falstaff Brewery No. 10, Revisited July 2020
I came back to photograph the old Falstaff Plant No. 10 the second Saturday of July to see how it was doing. I always enjoy the Lemp and Anheuser-Busch breweries, but I like how the architecture of...
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Lemp Brewery, Early Summer 2020
Some of my favorite buildings at the Lemp Brewery, built over a time period of the 1870s through the 1910s, are from left to right above: the malt kiln and house, and the fermenting department. Above...
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Former Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church and Baden Elementary...
The former Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church is a mighty structure, stretching for a considerable length down the west side of Annetta Avenue at the intersection of that street with Halls...
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Former Holy Family Roman Catholic Church
I’ve often remarked that Romanesque Revival churches in St. Louis are not fully Romanesque, but are often Gothic Revival in their massing. In the case of the former Holy Family Roman Catholic Church,...
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Wyoming Street Between Minnesota and Pennsylvania Avenues, Benton Park West,...
Wyoming Street near the old Union Brewery/later Falstaff Plant No. 2 has a row of exceptional houses that I’ve looked at before. I wonder if some of the upper management of the brewery originally...
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Wyoming Street Between Pennsylvania and Nebraska Avenues, Benton Park West,...
This massive commercial building above has a rare and valuable ghost sign for the Green Tree Brewery, which was once located in Soulard. The houses on this block are older than to the west and there...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 31: Louisiana Avenue Between Meramec and...
We’re picking up the “Discovering the Beauty of Dutchtown” series which was left off at Number 30. Louisiana Avenue between Meramec and Gasconade streets is an interesting street in that it seems to...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 32: Iowa Avenue Between Osage and Keokuk...
I returned to photograph the block of Iowa Avenue between Osage and Keokuk streets because it was the first block of Dutchtown I ever photographed way back in 2008, and I find it interesting to see...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 34: California Avenue Between Meramec and...
California Avenue is one of those streets that makes it a long way, all the way to Chouteau Avenue. But down in Dutchtown, just north of Meramec, it is a quiet stretch with an interesting mix of...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 35: California Avenue Between Gasconade and...
I had visited this section of California Avenue back in October of 2019, but it looked different with the foliage all grown up, so I inadvertently photographed it again. It’s interesting to see how...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 36: California Avenue Between Keokuk and...
Skipping over the block of California Avenue between Osage and Keokuk since I felt it was already well-documented, we get to the block just to the south of Chippewa. There are a lot of relatively...
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