The term “boulevard” in St. Louis streets parlance does not necessarily represent a particularly wide street with a tree lined median (though it certainly does in places like Lindell, Grand or Tucker), but really more…
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Shawmut Place Between Minerva and Ridge Avenues
The eclectic architecture continues up Shawmut Place, with an interesting mix of classical, Gothic, Tudor and little bits of all sorts of different styles. The blocks are long north-south here, which I presume allowed for…
Blackstone Avenue, Between Ridge and Minerva Avenues
Continuing down Blackstone, you come to the realization that the infamous Delmar Divide does not extend to architecture. Houses just as beautiful (and in many instances, identical) to houses in the Central West End or…
Blackstone Avenue in Between Wells and Ridge Avenues
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…
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.
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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….
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….
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