This former church seems to have sat on the former site of the Menard/Soulard Street Mission, which opened in 1875. I find the whole building confusing, as it was later a church. Built in 1896…
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West of Soulard Market
Just west of the Lafayette Avenue bridge that leads to Soulard Market, there is a small neighborhood of beautifully preserved houses. Whether it’s in Soulard, the LaSalle Park neighborhood, or the larger Frenchtown area may…
Ruins Week: Central West End
This is the northeastern corner of the Central West End, far from Euclid. It was built up in the years after the Civil War, and as it slipped into less prosperous times, it began to…
Castle Ballroom Demolition
I wasn’t going to bother driving by the rapidly disappearing Castle Ballroom, but I ended up driving by on Saturday and thought I would take a look. It’s sad to see, particularly because there is…
Newly Built Soldiers’ Memorial, Civic Center
Just constructed, after clearing away several city blocks of some of the oldest buildings in St. Louis, the new Soldiers’ Memorial looks out at over a young Civic Center.
Railyards, Union Station
There’s still a fair bit of the remnants of the distant outbuildings of Union Station, down towards the Mill Creek railyards. This maintenance building, now roofless, once sat right where the tracks headed into the…
The Gill Building
The Gill Building, from 1910, is the last remaining member of Terracotta Row, now demolished for the Famous Barr parking garage.
Random Shots, Central West End
South Side of Lindell
Lindell was originally lined with mansion, and most of them were swept away in redevelopment, some of which is itself historic now. But it must have been truly incredible to ride in a carriage down…
North Side Lindell Boulevard, Revisited
I love the mighty row of apartment buildings on Lindell in between Taylor and Euclid. They’re mostly from the early Twentieth Century, but there’s a couple of more recent ones that actually fit in pretty…
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