Posts about St. Louis County
Very few people know it, but there is an African American community tucked away in unincorporated North County on either side of Dielman Road, just south of Page Avenue dating back to 1892, originally populated by former slaves. It is… Continue Reading
The former Holy Family Seminary in Overland is now Wild Acres Park, but the buildings are still well-preserved and the grounds well-maintained. They have sort of a 1940s proto-Modernist interpretation of the Spanish Revival, which I sort of like. Like… Continue Reading
You never know what you’ll find down a quiet subdivision street in Town and Country. Passing down an old road in between squares of eighty acres of old farmland-turned-subdivisions, something doesn’t look normal. An old aerial photograph from 1955 reveals… Continue Reading
An early German congregation, Zion German Evangelisch founded this cemetery around 1847, when they built a log cabin church in this area north of the intersection of Ballas and Manchester roads. The congregation had originally been formed in 1838. It… Continue Reading
With roots that go back to 1838, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church has called the northeast corner of Ballas and Manchester roads home since 1867. The current church is from 1938, with an expansion from 1985. The cemetery is south of… Continue Reading
Long neglected and vandalized, Quinette Cemetery has now been restored by the City of Kirkwood. It is possibly the oldest African American cemetery west of the Mississippi, according to an explanatory text posted at the entrance. There is a very… Continue Reading
They’re closing off the Dillard’s and Sears wings of Chesterfield Mall, no doubt as a way of saving money on maintenance, utilities and staffing, much as the owners of Jamestown Mall did years ago. These pictures are of the Dillard’s… Continue Reading
I’ve photographed St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church in Lemay one time before back in July of 2017, but I was passing by and decided to take another look. St. Andrew was one of the two oldest disciples, and was the… Continue Reading
I realized recently that my pictures of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Lemay were not very good, so I went back and captured their motherhouse on a bright, sunny fall morning recently.
When I’m out and about, I sometimes snap pictures of interesting buildings that later expand into larger posts, but other times, I can’t figure out what to do with them. These photos are “outtakes;” buildings that are worth publishing but… Continue Reading