There is something sad but also poetic about the void in between these two identical houses. Their shared neighbor, which probably looked like them, is gone, leaving a void.
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The Old Stag Brewery’s Legacy, Belleville
There’s not much left of the old Stag Brewery in the northwest corner of the historic central area of Belleville. There’s the office building, which looks to be from around the 1940′s, and the warehouse…
Friedens Church, Hyde Park, More Thoughts
A faithful reader sent me some old photographs from her old church in Hyde Park, the Friedens German Evangelical Church. Its second incarnation is still standing, but as the Compton and Dry view showed and…
The Bremen Avenue Row, The Past
All photos courtesy of Rob Powers, Built St. Louis. I know many readers were particularly interested in my post last week on a row of houses that are now, unfortunately mostly demolished. A reader realized…
A Truncated and Rapidly Fading Row, Hyde Park
I was always intrigued by this storefront and attached rowhouse on Bremen Avenue, just northeast of Hyde Park in the eponymous neighborhood. It seemed clear that the row was probably much longer, and the trees…
Jewish Hospital and Schoenberg Pavilion Coming Down
Barnes-Jewish Hospital continues to make its mark on the east side of Kingshighway across from Forest Park. In a couple of years, a massive new building will rise on the blocks north of Children’s Hospital. …
The Case of the Mysteriously Vanishing Rock Piles
I covered the shameful desecration of Rock Hill Presbyterian last year, and a friend and I drove out to see how progress on the reconstruction was going. It turns out the stones had been dumped…
Tearing a Gash through Old North
In my continuing series of neighborhoods severely damaged but not knocked out by interstate construction, I headed to the desolate pedestrian bridge that stretches from Jackson Park to the Near North Riverfront. I’m sure the…
Chouteau’s Landing Demolition
I don’t understand why this building is being torn down. It sits right on the western edge of Chouteau’s Landing, in the shadow of the approaches to the MacArthur Bridge. One more building gone. The…
Kirksville, Revisited
Over thirteen years have passed since I graduated Truman State and left Kirksville and Northeast Missouri. It’s been almost exactly a year since I last visited, when I gave a series of lectures about a…
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