I finally got back into the heart of the North Pointe neighborhood, which for simplicity’s sake, I include under the Baden tag. North Pointe is easily one of the most beautiful, intact and best kept secrets in the entire city… Continue Reading
I had always seen this swooping oasis from Google Satellite up in the North Pointe neighborhood, far up in the northern reaches of the City, and I finally made it by to see it in person. Created by Vivian and… Continue Reading
I went back to the Greater Ville in July to see how the neighborhood was faring since I had walked its streets back in the winter of this year. I knew that violence had flared up, and that the area… Continue Reading
Beverly Hills is tucked in between Velda City and Natural Bridge Road, and is a quiet hamlet of Arts and Crafts bungalows. It is one of the smallest of the North County villages.
Velda City is a pretty little suburb in North County, and one of the larger ones, with its own police department based in the valley where there looks to be a former small business district. Like many of the towns… Continue Reading
Northeast of downtown Belleville, the housing stock clearly dates to the early Twentieth Century with a mix of different revival styles on larger lots. But it is deeply concerning to me that right in the middle of extremely well-maintained and… Continue Reading
Just north of downtown Belleville are a cluster of beautiful Italianate houses, many of which have been adapted for other uses over the years, as is common as the commercial core of a city grows into nearby residential areas. There… Continue Reading
I’m really worried about Jennings. I have visited a couple times over the years (yes, I understand that a couple of visits is not good enough to get a complete understanding of a community), and every time I go back,… Continue Reading
I looked around the residential areas north of Niedringhaus Avenue in Granite City back in early April. The town’s heart is still the steel mill, which lies on the southeastern part of town, but the houses on this side of… Continue Reading
I’ve done a series of posts on the “Borderlands,” that strip of land left between St. Louis and the northern suburbs separated by Skinker/Kienlen (two of them you can read here and here). The most relevant one to this post,… Continue Reading