Watch this interview with the local alderman about brick theft in the Ville.
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Brick Rustling, The Ville
A Missing Tooth, The Ville
There is something sad but also poetic about the void in between these two identical houses. Their shared neighbor, which probably looked like them, is gone, leaving a void.
Two Modernist Oddities, The Ville
Modernism crept into the Ville a little bit, with this cool apartment building, which interestingly would have probably faced another building in close proximity, and not the current vacant lot. The porches on the end…
Notable Houses, The Ville
This house above, an Italianate wood-frame house is surely one of the oldest buildings in the Ville. Below, this fascinating two-family building surely rose along with the Ville’s changing fortunes as the center of African-American…
Storefronts, The Ville
Wood Frame Houses and Arson, The Ville
The old age of the Ville shows in the disproportionate number of surviving wood frame houses. Built before brick fire codes reached them, these houses sheltered the first inhabitants of the area when it was…
The Ville, In Extensus
The Ville is one of the oldest neighborhoods in St. Louis, which is surprising in that it is way out past Grand, which was still mostly farmland well into the first decade of the Twentieth…
Gateway Refrigeration
Reservoir Market, Sitting
Sadly, as I had suspected, the historic Reservoir Market is suffering further collapse of its front facade. I suppose it is not long for this world.
St. Louis Place Ruin in the Snow
This is one of only five or so houses left in the southern end of St. Louis Place. I was saddened to see that it’s starting to collapse. See it back when it was in…
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