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Bellefontaine Cemetery, Late November 2014, Part 1
We went back up to Bellefontaine Cemetery to look at some old favorites in the late fall sun, starting with the Wainwright and Lemp mausolea. Some mausolea, like the one below, are not Neoclassical,...
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By the Bissell Mansion, Hyde Park
The Lewis Bissell Mansion is supposedly the oldest standing house in the city of St. Louis, built between 1823 and 1828. Rather interestingly, they’ve recently painted the house red, after being white...
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Random Sights, North St. Louis
Sometimes I drive around the North Side, and I lose track of where I’m at. The above photo is in Hyde Park. The photo above is in the Near North Side. The house below: I have no idea where it is.
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First Congregational Church, Now Grandel Theater
In keeping with the love of the Romanesque Revival flourishing in the late Nineteenth Century, the massive church from 1884 on Grandel Square delivers on that devotion. Massive, finely cut cut...
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Houses, Revisited, Grand Center
The streets of Grand Center are empty most of the time. The remaining houses are not safe; many of them are in the way of “progress,” We’ll see how many more they manage to tear down in the next...
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Alexander Euston Mansion, SLU Campus
The Alexander Euston Mansion, from 1890, still sits at 3730 Lindell Boulevard, but is now part of SLU. Euston owned pressing mills that created linseed oil. Perhaps not the most exciting industrialist...
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Bannister House
Henry Semple Ames or his mother most likely had this building constructed in 1889, during the boom years for Grand Center. Its neighbors are gone; it was later owned by a Ms. Cushman after the Ames...
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Blackstone Avenue, Between Ridge and Minerva Avenues
Continuing down Blackstone, you come to the realization that the infamous Delmar Divide does not extend to architecture. Houses just as beautiful (and in many instances, identical) to houses in the...
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Romainische Shul Synagogue, Goodfellow at Romaine Place
Ahavas Achim Anshei Romania was one of many synagogues that popped up in western St. Louis, where there had long been a large Jewish population. But unlike other waves of Jewish emigration from...
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Hodiamont Avenue, Borderlands
Hodiamont Avenue was a street car line, and it ran right along the border of St. Louis to the Wellston Loop. It is pretty much the last north-south street before St. Louis County, and many of the east...
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Burn Out, The Ville
This happened recently. It’s always hard to see houses that you’ve seen before in good condition be reduced to a burned out shell.
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Falstaff Plant No. 10, Revisited
I love the old Falstaff Plant 10 over on Shenandoah, Lemp and Gravois. It sits forgotten, right in plain sight. I also find it sort of interesting the half dozen or more owners and names that have...
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Hebert Street around Jefferson Avenue, In the Shadow of St. Augustine’s
New animals come and go at this light post. Below, the houses that once fed the pews of St. Augustine’s begin to fall, one by one.
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Bellefontaine Cemetery in the Snow, February 2015
Try and make it out to Bellefontaine Cemetery before the snow melts; it’s worth doing.
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Hebert and Jefferson, in the Snow
I return to this intersection often because it affords good views of St. Augustine a block away, but I still find the condition and life of the residential buildings on the other corners interesting...
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Russell Boulevard West of Nebraska
And then, only two decades later, and only two blocks from yesterday, the houses of St. Louis’s elite had become detached, grown in size and taken on new, eclectic forms.
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2330 South Twelve Street, Soulard
This hulking apartment building from 1889 must be one of the last holdouts of the “old” Soulard, never renovated, still advertising “rooms for rent” and holding out among the rehabbing that has...
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West Side of 12th Street, Soulard
You can always tell where the wealthy people lived, besides the obvious size and ornateness of their houses. They lived on large lots, set back from the street, along major arteries (which were...
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Corner Stores, Soulard
Due to the modern commercial environment, and lower density, we’re probably never going to need all of the corner storefronts in the city. They make great houses though, with big, light filled...
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Barley Cleaning House, North Side of Anheuser-Busch Brewery
I was intrigued by the Barley Cleaning House; why the strange proportions? Is it still in use, or does it stay because it’s historic? I love how it looks like a castle tower. But what are these...
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