It’s always fun to come across another Ittner/Milligan school, but in this instance, it was coupled with the terrible realization that the old school had been devastated by fire. Note the teetering dormer. This is…
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Hempstead Elementary, Hamilton and Minerva Avenues
“New” St. Augustine’s, Minerva and Hamilton Avenues
St. Barbara’s, opened in 1893, and closed in 1992, just one year shy of its one-hundredth anniversary, was reborn as St. Augustines, as the name was no longer being used for the older parish in…
Minerva Avenue Between Goodfellow and Hamilton
Minerva Avenue has the most exquisite row of apartment buildings that stretch up the north side of the street. There are two models, but both have slightly different brick patterns. Unfortunately, about half of them…
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 Western Europe,…
Storefront, Minerva Avenue in Between Blackstone and Shawmut
I find little storefronts like these intriguing. What were they used for? These are actually in the backyard of an apartment building on Blackstone Avenue. At some point it received a little bit of a…
Houses, Ridge Avenue in Between Shawmut and Goodfellow
Then all of the sudden, the two story tract houses disappear, and there are four identical, one story houses right in front of you.
Goodfellow Boulevard Between Ridge and Minerva
The term “boulevard” in St. Louis streets parlance does not necessarily represent a particularly wide street with a tree lined median (though it certainly does in places like Lindell, Grand or Tucker), but really more…
Shawmut Place Between Minerva and Ridge Avenues
The eclectic architecture continues up Shawmut Place, with an interesting mix of classical, Gothic, Tudor and little bits of all sorts of different styles. The blocks are long north-south here, which I presume allowed for…
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 Central West End or…
Blackstone Avenue in Between Wells and Ridge Avenues
Turning down Blackstone from Wells, the blocks are relatively short in length, but lined with houses and two-families that are constructed to look like single family houses. I particularly like these two apartment buildings, constructed…
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