Due to the fact that laws of St. Louis are too weak to get wealthy business men to follow the law, a building that in the right hands would be occupied and generating tax revenue…
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The Climatron
I think people probably forget how influential Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome actually is in the Missouri Botanical Garden. Its design was revolutionary, daring, and took a lot of guts on the part of administrators to…
Cleveland Avenue Gatehouse, Shaw’s Garden
I’ve always been intrigued by this little house sitting right along the wall around Shaw’s Garden. Supposedly someone lives in it, but I’m not sure if that’s true. Identified by Shaw’s Garden as originally a…
Chatillon DeMenil House
The Chatillon-DeMenil House is a perfect example of a Greek Revival mansion, renovated at a time when the Second Empire and Italianate styles had become much more popular in St. Louis. Its stern Ionic colonnade…
Home Brewery
Home Brewery was just one of numerous breweries that were demolished in the mid Twentieth Century. It had a series of lagering cellars or caves, and interestingly, none of the breweries’ Sanborn Maps every showed…
Historic Lagering Cellar
The owner of one of the last accessible lagering cellars from St. Louis brewing history was gracious enough to allow me to explore and photograph the subterranean space under his property this last week. Before…
Nighttime View, Compton Hill Tower
I took a series of photos out the observation deck, just as I had years ago. Above is looking to the northeast towards downtown. Above, looking south down Grand Boulevard. Below, two of the surviving…
Compton Hill Tower
I took the opportunity to go up the Compton Water Tower last full moon, and it was well worth the climb. It had been years since the last time, and I wanted to see it…
Reminder: Walking Tour of South St. Louis Breweries Today at 2:00 PM
The tour will pass by the four major historic breweries in the Benton Park and Soulard neighborhoods. Meet at the entrance to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery parking lot.
Two Stately Houses, Benton Park West
These two houses, one in buff brick, the other in red, jumped out at me recently in the northern portion of Benton Park West. They look identical, but the developer changed the front facade and…
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