Posts about North St. Louis
The riverfront in St. Louis is still very much an active and bustling industrial area. Grain trucks rumble by, and trains cross the area on bridges and tracks. Corn kernals line the gutters, as the cargo of trucks spills on… Continue Reading
The Merchants’ Bridge emerges from the undergrowth on the Far North Riverfront. It is a very old bridge, built only slightly more than a decade after the much more famous Eads Bridge. Opened in 1889, it was built to prevent… Continue Reading
We were stopped at the light on Grand at Blair, so I decided to kill some time and roll my window down and snap the above picture of the abandoned Orthodox Jewish Old Home, whose despoliation I have covered for… Continue Reading
Judging from the pumps, this building has been vacant for a while now. Senior citizens interested in attending a two-part lecture June 22 and 29, 2017 from 10:00-12:00 on the work of famous architects who also left their mark on… Continue Reading
Never in a million years would I have imagined that one of my favorite buildings in St. Louis, up at the corner of Bremen and Blair Avenues, would be rescued from the jaws of demolition. I had found this row… Continue Reading
This building, facing Jefferson, will be torn down soon for the new NGA site. Look at the attention to beauty and detail so lacking from buildings today.
Oops, I guess they’re not going to renovate these apartments for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency employees waiting breathlessly to move to JeffVanderLou! Sorry, but tearing down structurally sound buildings for no reason has failed for close to one hundred years… Continue Reading
I visited these houses back in May of 2014. They certainly haven’t changed for the better. In fact, the white house has been trashed since the last time I photographed it. I am giving a free lecture on Daniel Martensz Mytens… Continue Reading
JeffVanderLou makes me sad. There are such beautiful houses, but I have no idea how to make this economically feasible to renovate this area. The houses get more run-down, and the volunteer trees get taller. Look at how they modernized… Continue Reading
There still is plenty of St. Louis Place left, with rows of beautiful houses, dating back to the late Nineteenth Century. But it will require hard work, one house at a time; there is no magic “game changer” project that… Continue Reading