I don’t know why I had never seen this short little street that goes for one block in between Delmar and Enright. The houses all seem to date to the first decades of the Twentieth…
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Windermere Place
I thought I knew about all of the private streets in St. Louis, but the city is constantly proving me wrong; Windermere Place, located near the old location of Visitation Academy, is a stunning and…
A Disheartening Sight
Every so often, I see a house that’s abandoned, falling apart, and I realized that it is irreplaceable, and one of a kind. The grand house at Cook and Whittier is one such house, and…
Two Stately Houses, Benton Park West
These two houses, one in buff brick, the other in red, jumped out at me recently in the northern portion of Benton Park West. They look identical, but the developer changed the front facade and…
Business Up Front, Destruction in Back
These houses along Marcus Avenue look alright, just a little rough around the edges, rights? In reality, their red bricks backs have been stolen, leaving nothing but a sagging mess spilling onto the backyards. Luckily…
Fox Park and Industry
It can be a little jarring, driving through much of the South Side, which was originally built as residential streetcar suburbs, and then all of the sudden you hit block after block of factories and…
McKinley Heights, Revisited
I’ve always been intrigued by McKinley Heights; sandwiched in between Lafayette Square, Soulard and Benton Park, it gets forgotten by many people. But obviously, due to its close proximity to those other famous neighborhoods, McKinley…
Anonymous House, West End
Just another abandoned building, right? It will be torn down one day and no one will have noticed. But that is the problem.
Hodiamont Streetcar Right-of-Way and Urban Development
If you’ve ever spent much time in the West End and the Fountain Park neighborhoods, you might have noticed a very strange, almost street-like avenue that cuts between the buildings and has “no trespassing” signs…
The Slow Death of a Stunning Building
I have no idea what Mr. Titsworth, the owner of this stately storefront and accompanying apartment building, has in mind for his property, but I do not approve of it. Easily one of the most…
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