This block of Leffingwell Avenue is the only “intact” street left in the southeastern portion of JeffVanderLou; across the street is Yeatman Park, which had given the historic name to this part of the city….
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JeffVanderLou Arsons, Two Years Later
The Mystery Wall on Oregon Ave, Benton Park West
Rock Hill Presbyterian, Slightly Disassembled
The Horseshoe, Completely Gone
Wells-Goodfellow #3: The House of Horrors
Last Remnants of a Neighborhood, North Riverfront
Armour Meat Packing Plant
In Search of Cragwold
Castlewood State Park
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Leffingwell Avenue, JeffVanderLou
The Tuckpointer, The Hill, Summer 2013
Photo by Jason Gray.
The Wrecker, JeffVanderLou, Late November 2013
Photo by Jason Gray.
Brick Rustling, JeffVanderLou
Looks like just another abandoned building, right? But come around the side, and the ugly truth if revealed. For some reason, water was pouring into the basement of the house; contrary to normal procedure, the…
The Same Neighborhood? JeffVanderLou
I absolutely love the windows on the first floor of this corner storefront; I imagine it was a saloon or some other business that had high up windows to prevent passersby from looking in. Look…
Further Abandonment, St. Louis Avenue, JeffVanderLou
I’ve noticed it in passing before, but this time I was walking down St. Louis Avenue it fully dawned on me how ridiculously wide this street is. While certainly it was planned as a grand…
St. Louis Avenue, JeffVanderLou, Revisited
I know for a fact that the one of these houses, either the one on the far left or the one second from right, now trashed was occupied the last time I looked at these…
North Grand Boulevard, JeffVanderLou
Once bustling with pedestrian traffic, North Grand feels more like a highway nowadays, with stoplights for deserted side streets that don’t have anyone waiting at anyway. It’s hard to imagine what the boulevard would have…
Crucifixion, North Grand Boulevard
St. Paul Road Farmstead, Revisited
I am continually fascinated by St. Paul Road, which wanders back deep into the hills of southwestern St. Louis County. In particular, right at this horribly dangerous curve (the road is 1.5 lanes wide here),…
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