We encountered something that is relatively rare in the Greater Ville neighborhood and that is an industrial building. Also, the brick is not standard St. Louis red brick, but the sort of color one might expect in Chicago. What was… Continue Reading
Paris Avenue is a short, two-block long street, heading south from Natural Bridge Avenue, and is lined with beautiful tract homes, each one slightly different from the next. Quiet streets like this provide a refuge from the traffic on nearby… Continue Reading
Clarence Avenue is one of the few streets in the entire Greater Ville neighborhood that looks like it was built all at once. I suspect there was some sort of field or other agricultural concern here that was bought and… Continue Reading
Harris Avenue is two blocks long, coming down south from Natural Bridge Avenue, and these two buildings are in the block south of Lexington Avenue. I looked at a satellite image of the apartment building above, and the roof hatch… Continue Reading
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
Whittier Street. It is actually one of the most culturally significant streets in world cultural history, and the City of St. Louis apparently could care less. It was on this street that modern rock ‘n’ roll was created by Chuck… Continue Reading
Sarah Street is another one of those north-south arteries that is more famous for its path through the Grove or the Central West End, but we must not forget that it goes much further north through neighborhoods that are starved… Continue Reading
Someone has invested some serious money into either relaying or tuckpointing these four family apartment buildings on the short north-sorth Clay Street. They’re beautiful little buildings, built at the same time, and they show how people do care when they… Continue Reading
The 4600 block of Ashland is weird; it starts in the middle of the long block with 4500, but then continues on for a short block west of Cora Avenue. The house above is an old wood frame survivor. The… Continue Reading
Heading further west, the terrain continues down into a valley, and the houses change, as well. First up is a house that I would expect to see in Benton Park or Hyde Park, and was certainly out in the middle… Continue Reading