Posts about North St. Louis
There are always surprises, such as this cool Modernist ranch house in the Greater Ville, but most houses are the little shotgun bungalows that provided affordable homeownership in the early Twentieth Century. The old open pit mines around here, converted… Continue Reading
Your tax dollars at work! A recently abandoned Modernist school building has newer playground equipment in a trash-strewn blacktop playground. I do not know if children feel safe enough to come and use it now. Further down Labadie, most of… Continue Reading
For the most part, I’m proud of St. Louis. But occasionally, I see something that just makes me simultaneously laugh out loud and shake my head. “Planned Industrial Drive?!” Do you think that maybe city planners and leaders didn’t get… Continue Reading
Where northbound Taylor Avenue ends at St. Louis Avenue (it picks up as a one-way southbound just to the west a couple hundred feet) sits these buildings. I could have sworn I’ve photographed these buildings before, but I can’t seem to… Continue Reading
An unassuming vacant lot on Natural Bridge Avenue was once the Schorr-Kolkschneider Brewery, which once towered over this section of Hyde Park. As the Sanborn Map shows, the brewery proper was built on a triangular piece of land, similar to… Continue Reading
I had recently covered what I believe to be old offices and warehouses of the Hyde Park Brewery, whose historic brew house at Salisbury and North Florissant was demolished decades ago. But many of the auxiliary buildings are still standing,… Continue Reading
I stopped around the center of Bellefontaine Cemetery and noticed a couple of elegant family plots, including the Campbell and Ranken squares, each centered around an obelisk. But I was also intrigued by this monument with a mother and two… Continue Reading
The stone for Lot 79 is a little hard to read nowadays, but it was bought by a one Lawrason Riggs, a native of Georgetown, Washington, DC, way back when Bellefontaine Cemetery was just opening up. After marrying and outliving… Continue Reading
The Dr. David Brock Mausoleum sits in what would have been one of the most prominent locations in Bellefontaine Cemetery when it was originally founded and the front gate was along the eponymous road and fort, now North Broadway. As… Continue Reading