I revisited the side streets in the area in the winter of 2023. I was in the area of Norwood Square, which I first photographed back in August of 2009, and it looks like there has been at least one new demolition since the last time I went by, which was in December of 2018. In…
Wabada Avenue Behind the Former DePaul Hospital
I photographed Wabada Avenue, which is the southern cross street off North Kingshighway behind the former DePaul Hospital. It is an example of a healthy block in the Kingsway West neighborhood. The block is very long, just like the ones to the north and south of it.
Former DePaul Hospital
Update: The nursing home that was housed in the building for many decades abruptly closed without advanced notice on Friday, December 15, 2023. Residents were bused to other nursing homes and employees were left without their final paychecks. Heavily damaged by fire on December 2, 2024. I guess I never posted my pictures of the…
Outtakes, Spring 2021
They’re cleaning up the ruins of the John Loler House relatively quickly, though I was a little worried to see workers standing on the wood floors now loaded up with the debris of bricks and limestone as they stacked pallets. I had some leftover photographs from when I visited Dunbar Elementary this winter. I’ve always…
Union Boulevard, Walnut Park, Revisited
Starting at the corner of West Florissant Avenue and Union Boulevard, we discover the southwest corner once held a beautiful Italianate mansion, now long gone. I am curious about the inordinate number of children spilling out of the front porch. I’ve looked at Union Boulevard between West Florissant and I-70 before, back in July of…
Bartmer Avenue Between Union Boulevard and Belt Avenue, South Side
Bartmer Avenue, between Union Boulevard and Clara Avenue, is easily one of my favorite streets in St. Louis, but I’ve never photographed it all to do it justice (I’ve visited once in April of 2012 and then again in May of 2019). The light was good two Saturdays ago, and I snapped photos of the…
Samuel Cupples Elementary School
Similar story as many other abandoned North Side schools: the Samuel Cupples Elementary School was designed by revolutionary architect Rockwell M. Milligan in 1918, and it now sits empty. It’s a very simple design, and I like its reserved Tudor Revival style. I strongly suspect there was additional ornamentation on the two flanking wings on…
Ridge Avenue Between Academy Avenue and Union Boulevard, South Side and Vicinity
I took a right down Academy Avenue from MLK and spotted these two twins at the southwest corner of Wells Avenue. This is in that “fanned” shaped area of St. Louis bounded by MLK, Kingshighway, Page and Union. But the amazing architecture really started when I hung a right on to Ridge Avenue, and reminded…
Christ’s Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, Former Euclid Baptist Church
I was almost tricked into thinking this was a former Christian Scientist church, but its proximity to one on Page Boulevard clued me in that this was not the case. It was in fact built as the Euclid Baptist Church in 1920, and served as its home until 1962, when like so many other congregations,…
The Long Blocks Behind the Former DePaul Hospital
I’d spotted the long, very long blocks west of North Kingshighway near the old DePaul Hospital [whose post has mysteriously disappeared–can you find it for me? (Update: I went ahead and revisited it here)] and Most Blessed Sacrament, so Saturday morning I made it up there to take a look. Above, this house is on…