I was planning on posting about the long vacant Arcade Building today anyway, but then came the announcement that the building will finally be renovated into apartments. The Arcade Building is interesting in that it…
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Tracery, Webster Groves
The Winkelmann Mansion’s Demolition: A Symbol of What is Wrong With St. Louis Leadership
We all knew the end was coming soon; when the news reports of angry neighbors bemoaning the precarious condition of the Winkelmann Mansion in its seriously damaged state began circulating, I knew that one of…
Shining Light Full Gospel Tabernacle, Manchester Avenue
This humble little church sits right by Manchester Avenue, surrounded by a car repair and a larger building that casts a glowering shadow on it towards sunset, but I still really like it. The stained…
The Moose Church, Maplewood
Abandoned Church, Mt. Sterling, Iowa
What is the story behind this church, in the tiny of hamlet of Mt. Sterling, just a few miles north of the Missouri border? Where did the people go? Did they move away? Stop going…
Grand Center, November 2012
It was a cold day, but Grand Center was devoid of human life except for the automobiles driving by on Grand Blvd. Word is the building below, which once held the Department of Health, is…
Third Baptist Church, Grand Center
Anyone who’s ever gone to a show in Grand Center has seen the welcoming lights of the Third Baptist Church at the corner of Grand and Washington. It is not the first Third Baptist Church…
Saint Louis University
The SLU campus has a wide variety of buildings, including this old Jesuit church, which is now the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. Nearby was an interesting, almost Modernist grade school. I really like the…
St. Louis Place, Night
Cloaked in darkness, the broad expanse of St. Louis Place north of Cass Avenue, demolished for a failed industrial park, takes on a certain aura in the glow of streetlights. St. Augustine’s tall spire disappears…
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