Then there’s this edifice, on Waterman Boulevard, that was designed as a cogent whole as a Tudor Revival apartment building with a massive open lawn in the middle, akin to Kensington Palace. The developer clearly did not try to maximize… Continue Reading
This looks like one building, right? But looking closer, from up above, we realize this is actually, like most large apartment buildings that are not towers, really just four or six-family flats lumped together. This building is really just that:… Continue Reading
My old joke is that St. Louis architects and builders liked to design apartment buildings that looked like houses, so people could go in and out with revealing that they were renters. The houses above and below were built as… Continue Reading
The 6000 block of Waterman is perhaps one of the most diverse blocks in the neighborhood architecturally, with a fascinating mix of houses and apartment buildings, including this interesting one below, which again was probably built after the River des… Continue Reading
The River des Peres’ legacy lives on in the avenue that bears its name, and the idiosyncratic architecture that lines the cross streets. The apartment building above got an awesome new facade sometime in the late 1960s or 70s, while… Continue Reading
While houses on the busy intersections with Skinker are designed with two public facades, even back in the neighborhood at the corners with Rosedale, architects carefully composed the homes to look rational and grounded from both streets. Just say no… Continue Reading
McPherson Avenue continues the same theme of the rest of the neighborhood, with stout front porches and a mix of Beaux-Arts temple houses and Tudor Revival country homes. The beauty of this neighborhood is that each house has the same… Continue Reading
I came across this little pedestal, surrounded by a gravel garden.
A high-rise apartment building such as this is actually rare in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, but this one sits right along Skinker, and perhaps points to a future form for the busy thoroughfare if the Great Depression had not hit St.… Continue Reading
Just like 500 N. Skinker, this house works with its corner lot at McPherson and Skinker, with two prominent Tudor Revival facades. It has received a glass block renovation to its Skinker porch, no doubt to drown out the traffic.… Continue Reading