This block of Leffingwell Avenue is the only “intact” street left in the southeastern portion of JeffVanderLou; across the street is Yeatman Park, which had given the historic name to this part of the city….
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Further Abandonment, St. Louis Avenue, JeffVanderLou
I’ve noticed it in passing before, but this time I was walking down St. Louis Avenue it fully dawned on me how ridiculously wide this street is. While certainly it was planned as a grand…
St. Louis Avenue, JeffVanderLou, Revisited
I know for a fact that the one of these houses, either the one on the far left or the one second from right, now trashed was occupied the last time I looked at these…
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…
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,…
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…
Eliot School, Hyde Park
Sitting empty, the Eliot School never saw the rehabbing that its neighbor, Irving School received several years ago. As such, it sits empty. But it is a magnificent building, featuring strong, stout architecture with Italianate…
True Row Houses
St. Louis doesn’t have a lot of what I call “true” rowhouses, which are houses are all constructed together, and in many ways structurally they are really long buildings sitting parallel to their street front. …
Bosley Estates, Hyde Park, Fall 2013
Something has been happening at the site of the abandoned Bosley Estates, but it is not the type of activity I would want. One of the houses’ back door was kicked in, and I can…
Here and There in Gravois Park and Benton Park West
As Saturday became more cloudy, I snapped this picture of a corner store with a few additions and subtractions over the years. Gone is the classical pediment, most likely deteriorated from the weather and the…
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