St. Louis Ave is a strange street; if you look at the street grid you can see that over the course of its length through most of North St. Louis that it is actually a…
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Rock Hill Presbyterian, Slightly Disassembled
The Horseshoe, Completely Gone
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Armour Meat Packing Plant
In Search of Cragwold
Castlewood State Park
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St. Louis Ave Streetscapes
Five’s Parking Lot
Portland Place and Hortense Place
Above is the gate to Portland Place, which is just north of Westmoreland Place. You get to it the same way as Westmoreland Place by going up Lake Avenue from Lindell. Watch out for the…
Chemical Building
The long empty Chemical Building has a beautiful interior, and hopefully it will be open to the public again someday.
Westmoreland Place Gates
I’ll never forget that wonderful day on my birthday when I was showing my friend Ruth from Baltimore around the city. She is a fellow art historian, so we were enjoying our sojourn around the…
Soutbound Broadway
Corner of Jefferson and Broadway
St. Francis de Sales and Its Corner
St. Francis de Sales anchors a multi-cornered intersection, as can be seen here. The building above is a great example of a Mansard roofed store front with some funky 1950′s fake stone added to it….
St. Francis de Sales
My favorite church in the whole city after St. Augustine on the North Side is St. Francis de Sales, anchoring a corner of Gravois and Ohio for the last century. It is no longer a…
Chase Park Plaza
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