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Emmaus Homes, Fall 2022
We swung by Emmaus Homes, which is now Chateau Hoffman, to see what was going on. It looks like there is a pause in renovation after the clearance of trees we saw back in February of this year. The...
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Near North Riverfront, Early Fall 2022
It had been a little while since I had photographed the rapidly diminishing warehouses of the Near North Riverfront, specifically the ones just to the north of the casino, which has weirdly changed...
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Demolition Coming, The Grove, Part One
This row of houses on the south side of Manchester Avenue, just east of Kingshighway in the Grove, are slated for demolition for the now ubiquitous flimsy wood frame apartment buildings that are going...
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Demolition Coming, The Grove, Part Two
The old Emmaus church at Tower Grove and Chouteau avenues will be demolished for the new Ronald McDonald House and headquarters. The old warehouse to the east has already been demolished. The...
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Massive Redevelopment, The Grove
Ah yeah, so Vista Avenue has changed a bit since I first looked at it back in August of 2014 when the Grove was still at the cusp of a major redevelopment explosion. The affordable housing above was...
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McRee Avenue, McRee Town, October 2022
The last time I strolled down McRee Avenue in McRee Town was back in January of 2020. After my recent trip to France, I have been finding that I have been needing a French pastry fix more often, so my...
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St. Thomas of Aquin School, Renovated
I was extremely pleased to see that Blackline took on the difficult task of renovating the old St. Thomas of Aquin parish school. It is in Dutchtown, which is seeing increased not-for-profit...
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McNair Avenue Between Gravois Avenue and Victor Street, East Side
McNair Avenue in Benton Park runs through a very old part of the neighborhood, laid out early on through an area that was actually a French land claim known as the DeVolsey Tract. It was also...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 88: Meramec Street Between Grand Boulevard and...
We left off on the last Beauty of Dutchtown Series with No. 86. On a whim during one of the fog events on an early Saturday I photographed the entirety of the north side of Meramec Street, the main...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 89: Meramec Street Between Louisiana and South...
Passing by Louisiana Avenue, we see the evidence of many streets that started out residential or rural, and then began to acquire a commercial character after the arrival of streetcars. For example,...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 91: Meramec Street Between Michigan and Nebraska...
The next three blocks have been looked at in the past; I looked at the block between Michigan and Minnesota in October of 2021, Minnesota and Pennsylvania at the same time, and Pennsylvania and...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 93: Meramec Street Between Oregon and California...
The next block is new, heading east on Meramec Street east of Oregon Avenue. We’re first confronted with a desecration of the street wall in this convenience store, which was originally a national...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 94: Meramec Street Between California and Ohio...
Passing by Meramec School we again look at Meramec Street between California and Ohio avenues which we visited back in October of 2019. One the far side of the school we cross Iowa Avenue and there...
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 95: Nebraska Avenue Between Osage and Keokuk...
I’ve looked at this block before, back in October of 2019, but only cursorily. I decided to come back and look at this fascinating section of Dutchtown, where its history, beginning as farm and...
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Cherokee Street Between Michigan and Minnesota Avenues, North Side
I took a little stroll along Cherokee Street during the annual print sale a couple of weeks ago, and took some photos. I looked at the general area back in January of 2017. I had always wondered what...
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Cherokee Street Around Nebraska Avenue, North Side
Our final stop along Cherokee Street, including some buildings we looked at back in January of 2017 are the the houses and corner stores around Nebraska Avenue. The building on the left has been...
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Labadie Avenue, The Western Greater Ville
For some reason I got on this kick to explore the western side of The Greater Ville neighborhood. Starting at the intersection of Marcus and Labadie, where Cote Brilliante Presbyterian sits on the...
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Hammett Place
Hammett Place is one of those special places that I found on accident and that I suspect most people in the St. Louis region have never heard of before. Whilte technically part of a neighborhood...
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Old Louisville, Part One
I thought it would be interesting to look at neighborhoods close to the downtowns of several major cities in proximity to St. Louis that I had visited in 2021. I have often noted that you just can’t...
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Old Louisville, Part Two
Continuing our look around the Old Louisville neighborhood of Louisville, we see an evolution of styles, but again, they are in keeping with what we would expect to see in St. Louis. In this case, we...
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