A couple of flounder constructions that I cut from my recent St. Louis Magazine article are located in Old North St. Louis. These are not free standing structures like in other parts of the city,…
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St. Augustine, in the Snow
Our Lady of the Snows takes its name from the miraculous snow that fell on the Esquiline Hill in Rome around the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Make sure to catch my lecture on my photography…
Abandoned Four Families, Angelica Street, Hyde Park
This row of previously identical four-family flats, now slowly moving in different directions as cornices have fallen off or been replaced, once had other neighbors, long gone. I wonder if the rest will fall apart…
Hebert and Jefferson, in the Snow
I return to this intersection often because it affords good views of St. Augustine a block away, but I still find the condition and life of the residential buildings on the other corners interesting to…
500 Block of Eiler, Dutchtown
Tom Pickel of DeSales Housing took me down this wonderful one block street recently, tucked away in the narrow blocks in between Eiler and Eichelberger. This block, the 500 block of Eiler, was obviously, and…
Storefront, St. Louis Place
This building has changed little since I photographed it above several years ago. It looked like it received new windows recently, but then the owner seems to have given up. Last weekend, I discovered above…
Hebert Street around Jefferson Avenue, In the Shadow of St. Augustine’s
New animals come and go at this light post. Below, the houses that once fed the pews of St. Augustine’s begin to fall, one by one.
Evans Avenue, JeffVanderLou
I came across this isolated block recently, and I was impressed with the architecture of these houses. I like the one above with its improvements. Doesn’t look like it has been abandoned long. I…
Anonymous House, St. Louis Place, Revisited
I saw this house last year, and the yard was full of garbage. It’s been cleaned up and boarded up quite nicely.
Falstaff Plant No. 10, Revisited
I love the old Falstaff Plant 10 over on Shenandoah, Lemp and Gravois. It sits forgotten, right in plain sight. I also find it sort of interesting the half dozen or more owners and names…
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