Dating from 1871, the Zion German Evangelical Church sits in splendid isolation, with only a parking lot and cemetery surrounding it. The congregation, which still exists, dates from 1838. It is typical of many St….
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Friedens Chapel, Chambers Road
It was increasingly common the in the mid-Twentieth Century to establish new churches, or “chapels” out in St. Louis County as congregations’ members moved further out from the city. The Friedens Chapel on Chambers Road…
Hadley Township, Demolition
Another obliterated neighborhood in the name of “progress,” another promise of economic prosperity in the face of the reality, another missing piece of our collective heritage. Maybe Menards will agree to tear down the store…
The Priory, Interior
What is there really to say about the interior of the Priory? It is one of the most sublime spaces in St. Louis, and certainly the pinnacle of Modernist ecclesiastic architecture in St. Louis. Designed…
Old Bonhomme Church
Old Bonhomme Church is one of those pleasant surprises tucked away on one of the oldest roads in St. Louis County, Conway Road. Conway, and others, came together to construct a truly unique, vernacular structure,…
Conway Cemetery
We stumbled upon another rural cemetery in West County recently, off of Conway Road. The Conway Cemetery is named after one of the earliest settlers in the St. Louis County area, and the cemetery is…
The Case of the Mysteriously Vanishing Rock Piles
I covered the shameful desecration of Rock Hill Presbyterian last year, and a friend and I drove out to see how progress on the reconstruction was going. It turns out the stones had been dumped…
Great Snowstorm of January 2014 Coming In, Ballwin
I caught this view on the high ground at the corner of Kehr’s Mill and Clayton Road. The storm front was rolling in while I pumped gas. Time will tell how much damage the snow…
Museum of Transportation, Sunset
The Museum of Transportation truly is a hidden gem, and a visit out west to its campus is well worth it. I visited the day after Christmas and snapped some photos of the late afternoon…
St. Louis Institutions, Consigned to Museums
The Museum of Transportation possesses some of the best examples of steam engines in the world, but they’ve also taken in other transportation-related lost souls as well. The last remnant of the famous Coral Courts…
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