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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 59: Oregon Avenue Between Keokuk and Chippewa Streets
Detail of Plate 33, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. As we cross over Keokuk Street heading north on Oregon Avenue, we pop out on Compton and Dry’s 1876 Pictorial St....
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 61: Ohio Avenue Between Meramec and Osage Streets
Opposite Minnie Wood Memorial Square Park and Carnahan High School of the Future, we will now head north up Ohio Avenue, looking at the west side of the street starting at Meramec. There is a large...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 62: Ohio Avenue Between Osage and Keokuk Streets
Detail of Plate 31, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. In 1875, Ohio Avenue between Osage and Keokuk streets consisted of nothing more than a wood fence and a grove of...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 63: Ohio Avenue Between Keokuk and Chippewa Streets
Detail of Plate 31, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Ohio Avenue continued to be nothing more than a line on a surveyor’s map in between Keokuk and Chippewa streets in...
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Ohio Avenue Between Winnebago and Miami Streets, Gravois Park, Revisited
Detail of Plate 32, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Ohio Avenue between Winnebago and Miami streets has long been one of the more fascinating blocks in the city for...
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Ohio Avenue Between Miami and Potomac Streets, Gravois Park
Detail of Plate 34, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Looking at Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis in 1876, Ohio Avenue is a winding path, with massive sinkholes on...
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Ohio Avenue Between Potomac and Cherokee Streets, Gravois Park
Detail of Plate 34, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. While it’s now painted “Big Bird Yellow,” the old school house seen in Pictorial St. Louis and labeled as No. 7 is...
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Oregon Avenue Between Chippewa and Winnebago Streets, Gravois Park
Detail of Plate 33, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Oregon Avenue was only a grassy strip hemmed in by a grove of trees on the east, and a vineyard on the west in...
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Oregon Avenue Between Winnebago and Miami Streets, Gravois Park
Detail of Plate 34, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Oregon Avenue between Winnebago and Miami was fairly developed in 1875 when the draughtsman came by to look at it,...
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Oregon Avenue Between Potomac and Cherokee Streets, Gravois Park
Detail of Plate 34 showing B.W. Alexander’s House, Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876, Library of Congress. Oregon Avenue was the site of a country estate set among a grove of trees owned by a...
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Birch Drive, Bellefontaine Cemetery
I normally drive around on Prospect Drive, where the more famous Wainwright and Lemp mausolea are, but I decided I would take the less-traveled Birch Drive, which wends its way around to the...
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John J. Roe Elementary School
John J. Roe School, First Building on Mitchel, c. 1900, Missouri History Museum, P0900-S02-00286 Like many St. Louis Public Schools, John J. Roe Elementary School started out as an older, Romanesque...
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Mitchell Avenue, Blackberry Ridge, The Glades, Benton, Franz Park
The heights of The Glades was known as Blackberry Ridge, and the area was laid out after the Civil War. It seems that the railroad station was named Benton due to an Irish immigrant having trouble...
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Wise Avenue to West Park Avenue via Kraft Avenue
Wandering up Louisville Avenue up to Clayton Avenue, we realized we had drastically gone outside the boundaries of Franz Park (and I’ve already looked at that stretch of street before), so we turned...
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Plateau Avenue Between McCausland and Forest Avenues, The Glades, Franz Park
Leaving behind noisy McCausland, we head down Plateau Avenue, past the parking lot on the north for Olympia. There is a row of unique four-family apartment buildings, and then there are some...
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Prather Addition, Franz Park
Supposedly Dogtown landowner James Prather was out of town for an extended period when the nearby Glades were first subdivided, and his caretaker took advantage of his employer’s absence to cut down...
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Bevo Bottling Plant, Morning Light
The Anheuser-Busch Brewery never ceases to be interesting to me, and on an early Saturday morning, I captured the Bevo Bottling Plant with the sun shining on it. The old shipping office can be seen...
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Marine Avenue Between Cahokia and Miami Streets, West Side
Marine Avenue is most likely named thus because the old Marine Hospital was on the east side of the street. It is long gone, but the beautiful housing stock is largely preserved on the west side of...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 49: Meramec Street Between South Compton and...
We left off on our Beauty of Dutchtown series back in September of 2020, so I thought we would look at Meramec Street across from the major and former institutions on the north side of that...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 50: Meramec Street Between Michigan and...
Next up is a row of houses, primarily in the Second Empire style but with a couple of houses that are from later in the early Twentieth Century. Unlike most of Meramec Street in this area, much of...
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