Old Shriners’ Hospital, Complete
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.
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Under the Viaducts in the Mill Creek Valley, Part 3
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
Under the Viaducts in the Mill Creek Valley, Part 2
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
Cabanne House, Forest Park
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
Under the Viaducts in the Mill Creek Valley
Update: See the second post in this series here and third post here. Historic photographs prove the valley between Chouteau and Forest Park Avenue was never some Lafayette Square-type neighborhood full of beautiful houses that deteriorated into a wasteland. No, it… Continue Reading
LaSalle Park, Revisited
Don’t get me wrong; I’m glad they saved the houses left in LaSalle Park, which I’ve photographed before. But they did some weird things, like leaving these two houses above and below cut off from the street on a pedestrian… Continue Reading
4400 Block of Washington Boulevard
Ever since 2008, I’ve been intrigued by the eastern blocks of the Central West End, which technically extends all the way to Vandeventer Avenue. Here is another post showing this area from 2016. The thoroughfare is cut up now by… Continue Reading
Demolition, Samuel Shepard Drive
They did in fact go ahead and demolish the small house (seventh photo down) across the street from the SaLees Kennard House sometime in the first week of May. Senior citizens interested in attending my lecture at OASIS about influential… Continue Reading
Frenchtown Houses
Back in the 1960s, Monsanto and Ralston Purina worked with the city to demolish a huge swath of the historic housing in the Frenchtown neighborhood. They agreed to leave a little pocket for posterity. It’s a wonderful group of Second… Continue Reading
St. John Nepomuk Roman Catholic Church, Revisted
St. John Nepomuk sits just to the east of Tucker Boulevard, originally Twelfth Street, and possesses most of its original buildings, including a school building and parish hall, I believe. I was particularly interested in the building directly across the… Continue Reading