Update: The building above has been demolished. I often tell people that large numbers of people once lived in the areas now east of I-70 and I-55, but that the interstates destroyed their connection to the rest of the city to the west. But what is so interesting is that many of these buildings continued…
Tag: Brick Thieves
Ruins Week: Lewis Place
Not completely ruined yet, but I found the house interesting, nonetheless. It was probably one of the first houses out this far, almost to Kingshighway.
Ruins Week: Yeatman
Update: See it in the snow. I’ve been following this poor building for years; I think I vaguely remember it intact, years ago; I think this is the house during despoliation. It was attacked as late as 2010, or earlier. So this house has been sitting like this for four years.
Ruins Week: St. Louis Place, Again
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. I have no idea what this building looked like originally. I know it must have been a house, that it had some weird later additions of undesirable, probably mid-Twentieth Century…
Brick Rustling, The Ville
Watch this interview with the local alderman about brick theft in the Ville.
St. Louis Place Ruin in the Snow
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. This is one of only five or so houses left in the southern end of St. Louis Place. I was saddened to see that it’s starting to collapse. See it…
More Damage
Update: The building was finally demolished sometime in the winter of 2019. Whether it was by human intervention or nature, the sad storefront on St. Louis Avenue is continuing to collapse. Pretty soon there won’t be any buildings on the block.
An Attack, St. Louis Avenue
Update: The building suffered more damage a couple weeks later. It was demolished sometime in the winter of 2019. This building, while having sat empty for perhaps decades, was still in fair condition for the many years I have passed by. Not so anymore, as can be seen by comparing this image from only a…
Hebert Street
Update: The buildings above and below were demolished around the beginning of 2020. Hebert Street can change from utter devastation and abandonment in the northeastern corner of JeffVanderLou… …to new signs of life in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood. Update: I went back to this block in July of 2014 and the winter of…
Leffingwell Avenue, JeffVanderLou
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. But looks can be deceiving; I have actually already shown the backs of these houses, in a post last week. …