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Kennerly Avenue East of Annie Malone Drive, The Ville
Starting to the east of the houses you can see in the last photo of this post from November of 2024, we first see the two-family above. On the south side of Kennerly is the former Homer G. Phillips...
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Two Unique Buildings, Indianapolis
Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Bernard Vonnegut, and Arthur Bohn. Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN. Indiana Marion County Indianapolis, 1933....
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Church of the Annunziata
Founded in 1929, the Great Depression and then World War II held up the building of the church of the Annunziata out on Clayton Road at Cella Road in Ladue. It’s in what I would call the French...
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Harlem, Far North Riverfront, Revisited
Compton, Richard J, and Camille N Dry. Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a topographical survey drawn in perspective A.D. St. Louis, Compton & co, 1876. Map....
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North Dakota Street
Just off Virginia Avenue is the short street of North Dakota, one block north of Dakota Street, which strangely enough was not named South Dakota Street. It’s just another one of those nice, tidy...
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Fassen Street Between Virginia and Michigan Avenues
Down at the furthest southern end of Dutchtown, almost to Carondelet, is Fassen Street, which is an interesting mix of housing styles. Heading east from Virginia Avenue, we see this streetscape. It’s...
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Pestalozzi Between South Compton and Louisiana Avenues
Heading west on Pestalozzi Street from South Compton Avenue in Tower Grove East, we see how rapidly the city grew in the early Twentieth Century as transport connections improved. In fact, the houses...
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Pestalozzi Street Between Louisiana and Arkansas Avenues
Heading west of Louisiana, we have the International Institute, the former St. Elizabeth’s Convent and High School on the left, or south, and a row of houses on the right, or north. Beyond a doubt...
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Arsenal Street Between South Grand Boulevard and Arkansas Avenue
W.C. Persons, View looking south toward the intersection of Grand Avenue and Arsenal Street. c. 1915, Missouri History Museum, N37006 Let’s back east into Tower Grove East from South Grand Boulevard...
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Arsenal Street Between Louisiana and South Compton Avenues
Heading east on Arsenal Street from Louisiana Avenue in Tower Grove East, we see more of the trat housing along the busy corridor. We move past the church that was never built past the first story;...
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Magnolia Avenue from Thurman Avenue to Klemm Street, Part Two, and Hortus Court
After another not terribly inspired 1950s or 60s long apartment building, we get to Hortus Court, a fascinating and unique development in St. Louis. Platted in 1921, Hortus Court is a row of Dutch...
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Magnolia Avenue from Klemm Street to Tower Grove Avenue
We cross over Klemm Street and encounter some more grand homes, whose backyards are truncated by some houses built perpendicular to Magnolia Avenue on the cross street. Their styles reflect the...
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Botanical Avenue from Tower Grove Avenue to Klemm Street
We will now continue our examination of the Shaw neighborhood, which I remarked should really be called Tyler since Mary actually owned more square acreage within the modern boundaries of the...
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Botanical Avenue from Lawrence Street to South 39th Street
Crossing over Lawrence Street on Botanical Avenue, there are more elaborate four-family flats, replate with turrets and false roofs. One thing that is notable about Shaw is that severe lack of...
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Botanical Avenue from South 39th Street to South Spring Avenue, Part One
Continuing on past South 39th Street on Botanical Avenue in the Shaw neighborhood, we encounter more four-family apartment buildings connected together to look larger than they really are. The housing...
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Botanical Avenue from South 39th Street to South Spring Avenue, Part Two
Botanical Avenue is getting decidedly more wealthy as we head east in the middle of the block on our way to South Spring Avenue. Houses are eclectic, with influences from the Romanesque and the...
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Tragic Fire, Quinn AME Chapel
Tragic, terrible news arrived on February 23, when fire severely damaged the historic Quinn AME Chapel in Carondelet. I looked at the African American church back in December of 2020. As others have...
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Illinois Avenue Between Miami and Potomac Streets
Illinois Avenue just north of Miami Street starts off with some severely muddled houses, each one modified from their original appearance. And then comes a wide variety of Second Empire houses, all...
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Downtown Granite City, Early March 2025
I last stopped by downtown Granite City in Spring of 2024, and there has not been much happening other than at the Granite City Arts and Design District on the far side of the area. I did discover...
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East Steins Street
Leaving behind Reilly Avenue, we spot the Jacob Steins House on East Steins Street. I wrote about the house and other stone dwellings at St. Louis Magazine back in 2014 and their rich history in...
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