It never ceases to amaze me that the fortunes of a neighborhood can be so finite across ward boundaries, as they are in the Central West End. Look at these houses; they would go for…
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A Disheartening Sight, Revisited
Almost a year since the last time I photographed it, the house at Cook and Whittier is holding on.
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Folsom Avenue, McRee Town
The eclectic nature of the area’s architecture continues on the northern end of the residential area. There was a Jewish population in the neighborhood for a while, as this former synagogue attests. Folsom Avenue is…
McRee Avenue, McRee Town
Redevelopment is coming to McRee Avenue, though many buildings still empty. Perhaps what is most striking is the variable housing stock, everything from a stately house that one could see in the Central West End…
Lafayette Avenue, McRee Town
McRee Town. For many people, the name no longer exists; they call it Botanical Heights nowadays. I don’t, and probably never will. McRee Town is an example of what happens to a neighborhood that is…
McRee Town This Week
Long troubled, long misunderstood, I will look at McRee Town, now relabeled Botanical Heights, all this week.
Second Empire Beauty, Old North St. Louis
I remember when the house on the right was occupied; I was walking by and a guy starting urinating out of the front door. But what a beautiful house that one on the left is;…
Rowhouses, St. Louis Place
I love these rowhouses; since most people live west of Jefferson nowadays, we forget that the vast majority of St. Louis’s population lived in dense housing such as these houses. It’s interesting though, I can’t…
Anonymous House, St. Louis Place
I came across this house in the streets near St. Augustine Church and north of St. Louis Avenue. It is not particularly lavish, nor large, but I was drawn to it nonetheless. I have seen…
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