I was planning on posting about the long vacant Arcade Building today anyway, but then came the announcement that the building will finally be renovated into apartments. The Arcade Building is interesting in that it…
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Chemical Building #4
I never get tired of the Chemical Building, which is easily one of the most beautiful skyscrapers in downtown. I’ve come back to it on multiple occasions, and this time, as the sun set a…
Abandoned House, Visitation Park
This house interested me in that it has two front decorative porches. It sits in isolation, near Visitation Park in what I consider to be the West End.
Criminal Negligence At Its Logical Conclusion
Due to the fact that laws of St. Louis are too weak to get wealthy business men to follow the law, a building that in the right hands would be occupied and generating tax revenue…
A Disheartening Sight
Every so often, I see a house that’s abandoned, falling apart, and I realized that it is irreplaceable, and one of a kind. The grand house at Cook and Whittier is one such house, and…
The Jewish Orthodox Old Home
I drive around a lot, and see lots of buildings severely damaged by decades of abandonment and neglect, but every so often I come across a building has been abandoned for only a year or…
Sherman/St. Paul, Revisited
I returned to photograph the small hamlet of Sherman, or sometimes known as St. Paul, or even Jedburgh. I think Sherman is the most prevalent name. I was concerned to see the beautiful farmhouse above…
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…
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