Posts about South St. Louis
Cutting down Crittenden Street, we come across the longtime former home of Southside Early Childhood Center, which is now located at Jefferson and Russell. They have been helping children for generations in the City. The rest of the block is… Continue Reading
I realized that my previous visit to the two blocks of Texas Avenue between Arsenal and Pestalozzi in September of 2019 (Crittenden cuts through there, but it’s practically just a glorified alley in Benton Park West) did not do this… Continue Reading
Just to the north of the beautiful street wall of Nineteenth Century buildings lining South Jefferson north of Wyoming, a parking lot appears. A keen eye will see that faded but still visible paint, including a yellow arrow can be… Continue Reading
I could have sworn I’d photographed Grant School before, and I may have, but I can’t find it now. Nevertheless, it’s a great example of first, a pre-Ittner/Milligan school in St. Louis, and secondly, a perfect example of how an… Continue Reading
Kutis Funeral Home started out in a much smaller building, but was still anchored the corner of Gravois and Nebraska, as it is today. You can see St. Wenceslaus on Oregon Avenue in the background. The current building apparently dates… Continue Reading
There used to be so many more theaters in St. Louis, and they’ve mostly been demolished. Take the Granada, seen above, and then look below, where the theater and its entrance have been removed and turned into a parking lot… Continue Reading
Inspired by a World Wide Magazine visit to the intersection of Grand and Gravois, I photographed the old South Side National Bank. It’s been turned into condos or apartments. It was going to be demolished for a Walgreen’s but cooler… Continue Reading
Toby Weiss of B.E.L.T. St. Louis brought my attention back down to the block of houses across from the old St. Anthony’s Hospital site on South Grand Boulevard. The three houses are typical of the area, and remind us that… Continue Reading
I’ve looked at the intersection of South Jefferson and Gravois avenues in July of 2012, and I came back over the course of several months to photograph the crossing of two of the most important streets in the inner South… Continue Reading
Several weeks ago, I wrote about Bamberger’s Grove at my regular St. Louis Magazine weekly column. As I also wrote, Adolphus Busch later bought the Grove and donated it to nuns, who opened the House of the Good Shepherd, who… Continue Reading