I didn’t have much time so I snapped a couple of bad photos, but I will return and document more of the demolition of what was once the largest outdoor mall in the world.
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The Tortured Land Around Lambert Airport
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say, “Hey guys, let’s go hang out around the airport!” But surprisingly, the site of Lambert was once a cottonwood marsh known in French as Marais des Liards,…
Powell Square Lawn
Wonder what’s been happening on the old Powell Square site? Not much.
Home Brewery
Home Brewery was just one of numerous breweries that were demolished in the mid Twentieth Century. It had a series of lagering cellars or caves, and interestingly, none of the breweries’ Sanborn Maps every showed…
A Very Sad Loss By Lewis Place
Built in 1898, the beautiful building across the street from the grand entrance to Lewis Place long anchored this corner, and provided a perfect architectural transition from the private residential street to the more bustling…
James B. Eads & Co. Shipyards
St. Louis does a horrible job of promoting its pivotal role in American history. How many people know that the ironclads the Union used to conquer the Mississippi River were built in none other than…
Fort No. 3: The Lost Civil War Forts of St. Louis
I was looking around on the Compton and Dry view of St. Louis recently when I came across this exciting find: a remnant of one of the old Civil War forts that formed a ring…
More Bad News in Rock Hill
I was alerted today that the demolition of the historic Rock Hill Presbyterian Church has taken on a new, terrible twist. Fairfax House, which was banished to the northern tip of the property where the…
Reservoir Market
Soulard Market was not always the only public market in St. Louis; French Market and Mound Market are two other fairly well documented markets that served the residents of St. Louis inside Jefferson Avenue. But…
Development Still Missing on Wright Street, St. Louis Place
Almost exactly five years after I wrote this post, nothing is happening on the McKee owned property on Wright Street. It was a nominally healthy block until he got a hold of it.
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