I remember seeing Clay’s Wellston Food Market and Restaurant at the corner of Page and Stephen Jones avenues when I was driving around photographing old factories for my St. Louis Magazine article back in May of this year. Compared to its surroundings, it looks like something I would expect to see out in my rural…
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The Factories on Etzel Avenue, Wellston
Update: The GE factory was demolished by December of 2022. The old General Electric Consumer & Industrial Lighting factory was closed in 2007, after being in business for over one hundred years. 175 employees lost their jobs. The giant buildings are now either completely abandoned or at the most, underutilized. Despite the famous riverfront in…
Paris Avenue, The Greater Ville
Paris Avenue is a short, two-block long street, heading south from Natural Bridge Avenue, and is lined with beautiful tract homes, each one slightly different from the next. Quiet streets like this provide a refuge from the traffic on nearby arteries.
Harris Avenue, The Greater Ville
Harris Avenue is two blocks long, coming down south from Natural Bridge Avenue, and these two buildings are in the block south of Lexington Avenue. I looked at a satellite image of the apartment building above, and the roof hatch was open, and I suspect someone climbed up there to steal the ornamental terracotta from…
West Florissant Avenue, College Hill
West Florissant Avenue south of O’Fallon Park goes down to two lanes, much as most major streets in St. Louis once were. For whatever reason, the major boulevard plan did not extend up to this stretch, instead turning off onto Natural Bridge (via Palm, technically). Update: The buildings above were demolished for a plaza by…
New Mississippi River Bridge, Revisited
I’ve begun to spot the towers of the new Mississippi Bridge all over town, whether at the corner of Washington and 14th, or in the photo above, as I was driving eastbound down Natural Bridge Avenue south of Fairground Park. The two towers are proceeding rapidly, and I imagine next year they’ll start to lay…
The Greater Ville, Early Summer 2023
I also wanted to check up on the Greater Ville, primarily heading east down Ashland Avenue, the major east-west street two blocks south of Natural Bridge Avenue. The photos above and below are from the 4500 block of Ashland, which I looked at way back in January of 2019. The houses below are in the…
Enclaves of St. Louis #1: A Corner of Wells-Goodfellow
I’ve become intrigued recently with little enclaves of houses left behind when industry, highways or other constructions have cut off or isolated what was originally larger neighborhoods. The first one I’m looking at is an area of around a dozen houses reached by what is technically Hamilton Avenue south of Natural Bridge Avenue. It was…
Beaumont High School, Revisited
I looked at Beaumont High School back in October of 2013 when I was looking at other Natural Bridge Avenue institutions. I took more photos this time in the early morning sun of the late summer.
Former Bethany Evangelisch Lutheran Church
Constructed in 1928 as the Bethany Evangelisch Lutheran Church, this building is now occupied by the Tabernacle of Life Church. It is a great example of English Gothic Revival architecture. It was absolutely glowing in the early morning light the Saturday I photographed it. See this section of Natural Bridge Avenue here.