A couple of flounder constructions that I cut from my recent St. Louis Magazine article are located in Old North St. Louis. These are not free standing structures like in other parts of the city,…
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Main Street, De Soto
The Arlington Hotel anchors the wide expanse of railroad tracks that cuts through the heart of De Soto. Depending on who you ask on the streets of De Soto, the hotel was built in the…
North De Soto
Heading down the hill, there are more houses, but the lavishness of the houses decreases. Still, there is this magnificent church above and this house below. Down in the valley between two hills are these…
Silk Stocking Hill, De Soto
We explored the far southern Jefferson County town of De Soto recently, and found these stately homes sitting high up on the bluff above the main street in town. It’s nice to get out and…
Public Lecture, March 7 at International Photography Hall of Fame
Blumeyer Almost Gone
A lot more of the old Blumeyer tower is gone. I suppose it will be completely demolished by the end of March.
St. Augustine, in the Snow
Our Lady of the Snows takes its name from the miraculous snow that fell on the Esquiline Hill in Rome around the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Make sure to catch my lecture on my photography…
Abandoned Four Families, Angelica Street, Hyde Park
This row of previously identical four-family flats, now slowly moving in different directions as cornices have fallen off or been replaced, once had other neighbors, long gone. I wonder if the rest will fall apart…
Hebert and Jefferson, in the Snow
I return to this intersection often because it affords good views of St. Augustine a block away, but I still find the condition and life of the residential buildings on the other corners interesting to…
500 Block of Eiler, Dutchtown
Tom Pickel of DeSales Housing took me down this wonderful one block street recently, tucked away in the narrow blocks in between Eiler and Eichelberger. This block, the 500 block of Eiler, was obviously, and…
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