I don’t know why I had never seen this short little street that goes for one block in between Delmar and the 5400 block of Enright.
The houses all seem to date to the first decades of the Twentieth Century, and are a range of styles, often in the same house.
This house, right on the corner, looks both to Delmar and Beverly Place.
This is an interesting house, shrouded in trees and clad in stone.
You can see in the Sanborn below that the neighborhood was in the process of converting from large, “suburban” estates with single wood frame houses to organized subdivisions with brick houses. Large apartment buildings would come later and claim the two neighbors to the west of Beverly Place. Also, you might notice that St. Luke’s Hospital was just a block west as well.
I love Beverly Place. Early residents in several homes were said to be doctors at the hospital nearby. Like many doctors of the day, they maintained an office in their residence. This was convenient for houses at the end of the block, esp. if the facing street had a streetcar on it. The two end houses of the 3500 block of Halliday had doctors offices in them originally, with separate Grand Avenue entrances. In Parkview, the house at 6200 Pershing had a side entrance facing Skinker for the convenience of patients. That house actually had no dining room, which was very unusual. The space was given to the doctor’s home office.
I suspect this house on North Park Place had a similar arrangement with a storefront in the side yard:
https://stlouispatina.com/hyde-park-in-the-morning-light-11-1107-north-park-place/
#4 Beverly, (pictured left and above) was the former home of General Jimmy Doolittle at the outbreak of WWII
Interesting, I didn’t know that.
I lived at 3 Beverly Place with my partner, Casey Slattery, and several of our roommates for years until just before he passed. The neighbors on the street were all nice and it was a great place full of love when I needed stability in my otherwise crazy life at the time. Of course, the residents of the Forest Park (formerly Harlan Court) Apartments to the west of the side of the street would always throw their trash off the balcony into our back yard, but it was a small annoyance that was far overshadowed by the positive experience I had there.
My family still owns house # 11. It was a great street to have grown-up on. Everyone was so private, yet we knew each other!
Do you live there or does a relative?