What is interesting, however, in this incredibly dense neighborhood of apartment buildings, is how there are a scattering of single family houses thrown in here and there in the part of Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard. Take, for example, these two bungalows above that I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else in the city,…
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Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Four
Continuing on in our look at two family flats in Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard, we see more examples that have a front parapet wall. And if you look at the examples above, you can see more of those mass-produced glazed terracotta decorative elements that appear in the larger multi-unit buildings. But there are…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Three
Next up we’ll be looking at two days of two family flats, which are represented in an abundance in the area of Dutchtown we’re looking at west of South Grand Boulevard. The majority have two front doors to access the upstairs and downstairs units, and have front facing gable roofs. However, there are a couple…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Two
Next up in our examination of the built environment of Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard, we’ll look at four-family flats built in the 1910s and 20s. What is interesting to me is the configuration of the front doors; sometimes they are right next to each other, but also you can see above there are…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part One
Back in August of 2022, I looked at the ensemble of large apartment buildings built in the 1920s in Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard in a series of posts. I neglected to look at the houses and apartment buildings that fill in the context, so over the next several days, I’m going to do…
Former Constant Mathey House
I discovered the Adlon Apartments were once the site of the Constant Mathey House, demolished sometime before 1927 when the new building was constructed. Mathey was a salesman with the famous Mermod Jaccard Jewelry Company. But interestingly, the old carriage house is still standing in the back of the apartment building’s parking lot. This is…
Eighteenth Street Parking Garage
I have to admit that I was tricked by this building the first time I saw it. I initially believed it was built as light industry, and was gutted for a parking garage sometime in the mid to late Twentieth Century. I was wrong! This was actually built as the Eighteenth Street Parking Garage, designed…
North Nineteenth Street From Ferry Street to North Grand Boulevard, Hyde Park
North Twenty-First Street is another street lined with wonderful houses, and many buildings are still occupied as we head up the hill towards North Grand Boulevard. Now this house below is really interesting. It is surely one of the oldest houses in Hyde Park, and was built before street grading was finished, as the basement…
North Twenty-First Street From Bremen Avenue to Penrose Street, Hyde Park
It turns out that I’ve apparently never looked at any of the buildings on North Twenty-First Street, but there are some nice houses along. There are some Second Empire apartment buildings, but also some never ones from the early Twentieth Century, like the ones above. These two houses below are just totally trashed. Sadly, there…
Around Blair Avenue, College Hill
I wandered around the rest of College Hill, and spotted some of these houses. I’ve looked at the house below, which never ceases to amaze me whenever I still see it standing, in January of 2023, spring of 2021 (seventh photo), March of 2021, in the snowy winter of 2019, November of 2016 (third photo) April of 2018 (fifth photo) and December of 2018 (last…