Remarkably, caused by crude demolition crews, not the Sunday storm.
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JeffVanderLou Arsons, Two Years Later
The Mystery Wall on Oregon Ave, Benton Park West
Rock Hill Presbyterian, Slightly Disassembled
The Horseshoe, Completely Gone
Wells-Goodfellow #3: The House of Horrors
Last Remnants of a Neighborhood, North Riverfront
Armour Meat Packing Plant
In Search of Cragwold
Castlewood State Park
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Rubble, Tower Grove East
Old Federal Courthouse and Custom House
Sometimes when sitting at red light, a great shot develops; in this case it was the old federal courthouse.
Shell Building
In an era where we now plop down rectangular buildings in the middle of a parking lot, the 1925 Shell Building by Jamieson and Spearl in western downtown teaches us a valuable lesson about the…
Survivors, Westminster Place, Grand Center
A reader alerted me to a beautiful street of homes in Grand Center hiding in the shadow of the Coronado Building on Lindell. Westminster Place, perhaps more famous for its stretch through the Central West…
Two Stupid Demolitions
The Preservation Research Office brought to my attention that two unique and threatened buildings are now either demolished or targeted for demolition soon. Above, a lone survivor on Olive Street of both Grand Center’s tony…
Christ Church Cathedral
One of the oldest surviving churches in St. Louis, the Episcopalian Christ Church Cathedral occupies a quiet corner of downtown across the street from the newly restored Central Library. It was constructed between 1859 and…
Carter Carburetor Coming Down
I knew that Carter Carburetor had been marked for Brown Field clearance, but I didn’t realize they had started. Due to contamination, I know that much of the interior probably has to be remediated first,…
Harvest Time in St. Louis Place
I examined the corn and bean fields of St. Louis Place about two months ago, and now that it’s fall, the plants are turning a golden color, ready for harvest. The food will not be…
Old North, Early Fall
There’s just something that I love about this wall; it’s a solid mass of brick that once was oozing, wet clay, and now has been holding up this house for a century. Will it survive…
Kosciusko, South Riverfront
“Wow, look at all of those cool buildings in the Sanborn maps!” I said to myself a couple of months ago, while perusing the area of the South Riverfront due east of Soulard, a neighborhood…
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