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Hebert Street, Old North
I revisited Hebert Street in Old North, and it still represents for me the awesome potential, both realized and still unrealized in the neighborhood.
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Streetside Memorial
Jefferson Avenue is a long thoroughfare; at one point, it passes by multi-million dollar mansions. On other sections, it passes by a much different world.
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Gibson Avenue, The Grove
Strolling down a sunny Gibson Street one Sunday, we discovered that there is substantial renovation occurring on the street. The houses are sort of a mix between Shaw and Benton Park West. It’s a nice...
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Arco Avenue, The Grove
I love the one story brick bungalows of St. Louis; they’re modest, but they have all the detailing that their two story brothers have. I like to think that each house was just as important as the...
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The Southside of the Grove
South of Manchester, the tenor of the Grove completely changes. As the Compton and Dry View shows, when the northern Grove, the Gibson Heights Addition, was vacant land, houses were already sprouting...
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North Side of Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
Heading clockwise around Francis Park, we encounter this little Orthodox church, and then a string of apartment buildings on the north side of the park. Like their Nineteenth Century ancestors, I...
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East Side of Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
Single family houses return to the east side of Francis Park, with simplified versions of earlier revival styles popular throughout St. Louis history. It almost seems if builders were responding to...
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St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Madison, Illinois
Built in 1953, the Church of St. Mary in Madison bears a striking resemblance to the more famous Little Flower Church in Richmond Heights. But the budget doesn’t seem like it was as generous as it...
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Three Houses
Vanishing St. Louis covered these three houses, which might be demolished for a new housing development. They are occupied; well, at least two of them are. Why would we tear down anything with so much...
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House Under Renovation
It’s great to see ladders in the windows of beautiful old houses, knowing they’re getting much needed work to keep them going for another 100 years.
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Huge Turret House
This house’s turret is ridiculous–ridiculously awesome! What happened to that playful spirit in American architecture? This is just a middle class house, not a wealthy person’s house.
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Vivid Lemp Brewery
I messed up the settings on my camera, and got this vivid, very blue view of the Lemp Brewery. Never boring to look at it.
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Bexar County Courthouse, San Antonio, Texas
Completed in 1897 according to the plans of James Riely Gordon, the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio is a red sandstone interpretation of the Romanesque Revival. Its distinctive towers contrast...
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Old Monticello Women’s College
Founded by Benjamin Godfrey, a wealthy New England minister in 1838, Monticello Women’s College lasted until 1971, when it closed in a wave of all-female college closings. The current buildings were...
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Back Doors, Westmoreland and Portland Places
The gates of Westmoreland Place and Portland Places are prominent landmarks along Kingshighway (see their gates here and here, respectively). But coming around to Union, you realize they have...
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The House Amongst the Apartment Buildings
Tucked away in a shaded lot, surrounded by dozens of early Twentieth Century apartment buildings, is this one house, in what could be best described as Shingle Style mixed with some Romanesque Revival...
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Olivette Park, East St. Louis
In a city of old wood frame homes, the buildings of Olivette Park stand out in their brick construction. The vitality of the neighborhood can be seen in these handsome buildings, such as this old...
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Miami Street, Gravois Park
The old saying, “avoid the state streets where they intersect with Indian tribe names” still influences the collective consciousness of St. Louis’s image of Gravois Park. And certainly, the...
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Cyrus F. Blanke Building
Cyrus F. Blanke owned a tea and coffee company here in St. Louis. I’ve always been intrigued by his building, and its muted detail covered in off-white paint. Interestingly, the 1904 era Sanborn maps...
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Penrose and Fairgrounds, Tucked Up By the Interstate
Tucked up in the bend of I-70 that now leaves most of its streets truncated to the north, I found the most interesting, quiet part of the Northside. The area still has a fair amount of wood frame...
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