Posts about Central St. Louis
I’ve looked at the side streets of Lafayette Square before, and I returned to them again to look at the houses that are often forgotten in favor of the more famous one around the park. What fascinates me about the… Continue Reading
I imagine everyone in the St. Louis region, and perhaps even some outside, heard about the breakage of the 30 inch cast iron water main under Lindell Boulevard, just east of Union Boulevard where Park Road cuts off for a… Continue Reading
Perhaps I’ll just let the photographs speak for themselves; Kingsbury Place is not the most famous of the private streets in St. Louis, but it certainly holds its grounds in the finesse of its architecture. What is most interesting is… Continue Reading
I took a look at the massive gates of Kingsbury Place back in October of 2014, and I returned and photographed them in early June of 2019. They are spectacular, and probably one of my favorite gates of all the… Continue Reading
This house’s façade tells a story. Its original slate roof tiles survive, but then it lost its front porch roof at some point, and someone tried to patch the mustard color brick, and then at some point, maybe before the… Continue Reading
They’re building some houses here designed by a bunch of starchitects, but for the time being, it is a giant muddy mess with a lake down at one end. I still think the house they demolished years ago should have… Continue Reading
The rehab of the old Shriners’ Hospital is complete, and it is now open as apartments. It won one of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis annual most improved awards for 2019.
There are still some buildings just south of Highway 40 that were designed when Market Street still passed by their northern facades, such as the one above. But when the highway was built after World War II, they suddenly found… Continue Reading
I looked at some of the industrial areas under the bridges and viaducts that cross over the Mill Creek Valley and its extensions west previously. Now we will look at some redevelopment around Grand Boulevard. Some of the buildings that… Continue Reading
The Cabanne House is named after Jean Pierre Cabanne, one of the landowners of what became Forest Park. It was designed in 1879 by John McNamara in the Second Empire style as the residence of the park’s superintendent, and functioned… Continue Reading