I had a coupon for White Castle, so I headed over to the location on South Broadway, which is right in the middle of what could most diplomatically be described as a wasteland. Local historians…
Headlines
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
Recent Posts
I Heard There Used To Be A City Here
Little Big Bangs, Cherokee Street
Anonymous House, West End
Just another abandoned building, right? It will be torn down one day and no one will have noticed. But that is the problem.
Hodiamont Streetcar Right-of-Way and Urban Development
If you’ve ever spent much time in the West End and the Fountain Park neighborhoods, you might have noticed a very strange, almost street-like avenue that cuts between the buildings and has “no trespassing” signs…
The Slow Death of a Stunning Building
I have no idea what Mr. Titsworth, the owner of this stately storefront and accompanying apartment building, has in mind for his property, but I do not approve of it. Easily one of the most…
A Decimated Street of Beautiful Apartment Buildings
Sitting in the shadow of the Roberts Brothers building on North Kingshighway, is this stunning symphony in brick, a complete row of four-family flats now all completely abandoned on Aldine Place. The Roberts Brothers, according…
A Beautiful Block of Cote Brilliante, Devastated by Land Speculation
A friend introduced me to a fascinating block of houses whose construction, unlike much of the city, spanned at least four decades. It is the 4700 block of Cote Brilliante, in what is sometimes called…
A Very Sad Loss By Lewis Place
Built in 1898, the beautiful building across the street from the grand entrance to Lewis Place long anchored this corner, and provided a perfect architectural transition from the private residential street to the more bustling…
GODLVSU
St. Liborius Angel?
It’s been long said that many of the sculptures from St. Liborius in St. Louis Place ended up at Sacred Heart in Eureka. I had the opportunity to get inside, but I didn’t really see…
Press
Image by Jennifer Silverberg
Recent Comments