Posts about South St. Louis
There are all sorts of places in St. Louis called “The Wedge,” but there is one in Tower Grove South bordered by Gravois to the northwest, Grand to the east, and Chippewa to the south. It is notable in how… Continue Reading
As is common, a large apartment building pops up near the major artery of Grand Boulevard, and then lower density continues further away to the east on Osage Avenue. The four-family above has been shorn of its cornice, and its… Continue Reading
Alberta is a short one-way street going west from Louisiana Avenue to Grand Boulevard. I suspect it was made one-way to cut down on traffic to drug houses back in the day, as Osage Avenue just to the south is… Continue Reading
Crossing over Keokuk Street, we reach some older houses, such as the duplex below, sitting high above street grade. I like the ornamental grass, by the way. We come across a very old wood frame house, which sits right up… Continue Reading
Looking west down Osage Street, we see some early Twentieth Century four-families, as well as some earlier red brick houses. Continuing north up Pennsylvania past Osage, we see more of the beautiful red brick, and increasingly trimmed with glazed white… Continue Reading
North of Gasconade Street, there is a long apartment building, which is amazingly stuffed into what is really the space for a large house. It shows how much demand there once was for high density housing in the early decades… Continue Reading
Just north of Meramec Street, Pennsylvania Avenue has a row of Arts and Crafts two-family apartment buildings, built in 1927. Some have had their second floor porches preserved, but the one below has had it ingloriously removed and patched poorly.… Continue Reading
The first one hundred feet of the quiet one block stretch of Michigan Avenue between Meramec Street at St. Anthony of Padua, and Gasconade Street at Marquette Park near the pool house, seems normal enough for the neighborhood of Dutchtown.… Continue Reading
Heading up Virginia Avenue, we have firmly left the Victorian Age; the playful styles of the Nineteenth Century are gone, and we now see architecture that is far more rectilinear and severe. It is very beautiful, and relies on bricks… Continue Reading
We pick up our Beauty of Dutchtown series where we left off with Part 11, now on Keokuk Street, northwest of Marquette Park. The brick masons used different colors of brick to make little designs, and created cornices and other… Continue Reading