Steins Street is just one of those streets where you think, wow, what an amazing snapshot of what this city used to look like back before the Civil War. These are some old houses, and they have been immaculately restored.… Continue Reading
On the other side of Minnesota Avenue from The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet is this row of houses, many showing alterations from the passage of time. The cornices are missing here and there, but overall they look much… Continue Reading
Walking up the hill, we realize just how steep the grade changes from the flat land along South Broadway to the heights along Michigan Avenue. There are some interesting houses along the way. And there’s also some awesome examples of… Continue Reading
Moving north past Quincy Street, the majority of the historic built environment is on the west side of South Broadway. On the east side are a bunch of vacant lots and rusty warehouses. Still, there are more elaborately decorated Italianate… Continue Reading
South Broadway is where the industry and the people met in Carondelet, and the businesses that served both line both sides of the thoroughfare that was originally known as Carondelet Road for much of its early history. Below is the… Continue Reading
We already saw the front of this house (last photo) at the corner of Michigan and Nagel, but now we see this interesting addition out the back along the latter street. This was the home of J.C. Degenhart, but it… Continue Reading
The west side of Virginia Avenue south of Blow Street has a group of very old houses that makes me suspect there was some type of industry nearby. These wood frame houses are old, perhaps dating back to the 1860s… Continue Reading
It’s interesting to see how a similar pattern of development occurs in different parts of the city. As I showed recently at the old Webster Elementary School in Old North, at the Blow Elementary School in Carondelet, there were original… Continue Reading
Heading one block west over to Virginia Avenue (Compton Avenue gets squeezed out down in Carondelet), we now head south from Haven down to Loughborough, first on the west side. The street is far more quiet than Michigan Avenue, and… Continue Reading
Up next is another row of houses from the 1880s and 90s on the west side of Michigan south of Nagel down towards Robert Street. This block was clearly developed later, with a preponderance of Romanesque Revival houses on larger… Continue Reading