Turning down Blackstone from Wells, the blocks are relatively short in length, but lined with houses and two-families that are constructed to look like single family houses. I particularly like these two apartment buildings, constructed…
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Blackstone Avenue in Between Wells and Ridge Avenues
Wells Avenue, Between Burd and Blackstone Avenues
The next couple of weeks, I am going to be focusing on the Hamilton Heights neighborhood, tucked up against the western border of the city with MLK on the north, Page on the south, and…
Cotton Belt Mural
The Cotton Belt’s eastern, river side has been spruced up with this great mural. More in the future on this.
Triplets
Skeletons
Falstaff Plants No. 2 and 5, Revisited
Otto Stiefel’s old Union Brewery became Falstaff Plant No. 2, where the brewery continued to expand. Unfortunately, the central core of the plant, on the triangular block, has been demolished; its auxiliary buildings still stand….
Falstaff Plant No. 1, Revisited
The old Forest Park Brewery, just west of Grand on Forest Park Avenue, became the center of the Falstaff rebirth. These original images from Alvin Griesedieck’s book show that much of what was originally part…
Alvin Griesedieck Book on Falstaff Story
The Central Library has an extensive collection of rare books, many of which are extremely fragile due to age. But Special Collections also has books from the Twentieth Century that are in perfectly good condition,…
Near North Riverfront, Site of Stadium?
I’m sure many of my readers are curious about the proposed football stadium in the Near North Riverfront just north of Laclede’s Landing, hemmed in today by I-44, I-70, the MLK Bridge and the river….
Verrocchio, Doubting Thomas, Or’ San Michele, Florence
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