Not every street has good news happening on it in the West End. At the T-intersection of Hodiamont and Suburban avenues, there are many vacant lots and abandoned buildings. This funeral home sits at the end of the street. But… Continue Reading
I’ve looked at Raymond Avenue before, just east of Union Boulevard, including the Lasar Residence (seventh photo down), but I decided to look at the two blocks just west of Kingshighway from Clarendon, crossing over Academy Avenue. As is common… Continue Reading
Another example of a congregation that was founded in the early Twentieth Century with the merging of two older churches in the West End, Eden Immanuel started in 1919 and closed in 1971. It’s a very beautiful church, with an… Continue Reading
Page Boulevard continues to be lined with stately houses in the West End neighborhood, after a noticeable gap of parking lots and demolition in the Fountain Park area. The houses are mostly occupied, and many have driveways that get their… Continue Reading
Page Boulevard is unique among the major arteries in the city in that it is lined with houses and apartments for its entire length, with the exception of corner stores. I caught the south side of the street on an… Continue Reading
Readers had been inquiring about the house at the corner of Cook and Whittier, so I went by and checked up on it. Overall, the house looks to be doing about the same as it always has been, but I… Continue Reading
I took a look around Wells-Goodfellow to see how things were doing. I had been back in 2018 to revisit places I had seen in the past, and things were looking much the same as when I had looked at… Continue Reading
This anonymous cluster of buildings, one of which is obviously a grain elevator, has an incredibly important role in the history of America in the early Twentieth Century. Known variously as the George P. Plant Milling Company as well as… Continue Reading
Chouteau Avenue in Chouteau’s Landing is still lined with a complete street wall of buildings, and they are very well preserved. The hulking mass of the western approaches to the MacArthur Bridge, shorn of the road deck, are just to… Continue Reading
They’re coming along on building the $300,000 houses on West Olive Street in Grand Center, and the lake I had photographed before is now gone. The new houses actually have some panache, and are turning out better than I expected.… Continue Reading