Village Church
There are not as many Colonial Revival churches in St. Louis City or the inner suburbs of St. Louis. This one is an exception. I don’t think the Village Church is the original congregation.
Colonial Revival
Kingsbury Place
Perhaps I’ll just let the photographs speak for themselves; Kingsbury Place is not the most famous of the private streets in St. Louis, but it certainly holds its grounds in the finesse of its architecture. What is most interesting is… Continue Reading
Fee Fee Baptist Church
With the congregation dating back to 1807, Fee Fee Baptist lays claim to being the oldest Protestant congregation west of the Mississippi. The handsome old sanctuary in the above and below photos dates to 1870, and is similar in style… Continue Reading
Granite City, Revisited
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
West of the City Limits in University City and Wellston
North of the Delmar Loop, and even north of Olive Boulevard, there is an intriguing cluster of old, very old houses, dating back to perhaps the late Nineteenth Century west of the City limits. The east-west streets have the same… Continue Reading
College Hill in the Snow #24: Our Lady of Perpetual Succor
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor burned long ago, but the many buildings of its campus are still standing, showing what a large presence the congregation was in the community. The parish is now closed, the… Continue Reading
Compton Avenue and Environs, Sunset
Tower Grove East west of Compton Avenue was basically suburbia when it was built in the early Twentieth Century, so with some exceptions, most of the houses were built within a decade or two of each other. While the architecture… Continue Reading
4500 and 4600 Blocks of Lexington Avenue, The Greater Ville
A mixture of houses line the 4500 and 4600 blocks of Lexington, which like Ashland, is an especially long stretch just east of the Western Lutheran Cemetery. Old Italianate bungalows are still around, but most houses are from the early… Continue Reading
North Taylor Avenue, The Greater Ville
Taylor Avenue starts way down south and makes it the way up to Interstate 70 in the Penrose neighborhood. Along its path, it goes by many famous addresses, including Lewis Place, and other private streets. But there are more of… Continue Reading
St. Louis Avenue, Hamilton to Union
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets that stretches the length of… Continue Reading