I was walking along Broadway just south of Cerre Street, when I noticed this street sign attached to a light pole. After I perused the various maps from Nineteenth Century St. Louis, I could find…
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LaSalle Park, Frenchtown
There’s a strange little pocket of what was once a much larger neighborhood south of downtown, which is nowadays called LaSalle Park, but was part of the larger Frenchtown quarter of the city. Apparently Ralston-Purina…
I Heard There Used To Be A City Here
I had a coupon for White Castle, so I headed over to the location on South Broadway, which is right in the middle of what could most diplomatically be described as a wasteland. Local historians…
Old Stone Building, Lafayette Square, Revisited
The old stone house in Lafayette Square is not doing well; little has changed since I photographed it back in late 2011.
Mill Creek Modernist Office Buildings Preview
The demolition of the vibrant if rundown Mill Creek Valley in the name of urban renewal in the 1950′s is increasingly well-documented. But I realized that in its place rose some interesting Modernist office buildings,…
An Interesting Building, Western Downtown
I came upon this nice office building on the western edge of Downtown. I suspect it would have been demolished for 755, but instead it has been restored and is awaiting more tenants.
North-South Distributor, Revisited
Ever wonder why there’s more vacant land than normal just west of Union Station? It was the planned route for an interstate that would have looped around downtown, cutting Lafayette Square off from downtown (even…
Cool Modernist Apartment Building, Ellendale
These two apartment buildings sit turned at an angle away from McCausland, filling up a much larger site than their actual footprint. I like the two stone panels right in the middle of the brick…
Fake Barn, City Limits, McCausland Avenue
Stone Store, Manchester Avenue
I was fascinated by this building; it looks like your standard early Twentieth Century storefront in St. Louis, but it is made of cut stone. Why?
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