I was standing around on a front porch in Grand Center of a house that has somehow survived the devastation that has continued to plague the area as the quest for more parking lots and…
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Cleaning up ‘Blight’ in Grand Center
Wow, the time flies by; it seems like just yesterday I was posting pictures of abandoned buildings on Grand just north of Powell Hall. There have been some developments; the abandoned funeral home is being…
Survivors, Westminster Place, Grand Center
A reader alerted me to a beautiful street of homes in Grand Center hiding in the shadow of the Coronado Building on Lindell. Westminster Place, perhaps more famous for its stretch through the Central West…
Two Stupid Demolitions
The Preservation Research Office brought to my attention that two unique and threatened buildings are now either demolished or targeted for demolition soon. Above, a lone survivor on Olive Street of both Grand Center’s tony…
International Photography Hall of Fame Now Open
A great new resource for photography aficionados has open in Grand Center, above the Triumph Grill. The International Photography Hall of Fame will have rotating exhibits of its collections as well as other special exhibits.
Eastern Midtown, Sunset
East of the giant parking lots that sit empty most of the year is a rapidly developing neighborhood with great businesses. The architecture is usually from the early Twentieth Century, replacing the mansions and upper…
Residential Relic, Grand Center
This house, built in 1885, reminds us that Grand Center was once a tony residential district, built up in the decades before the World’s Fair. There are a fascinatingly large number of houses left amongst…
Sun Theater, Released from Its Sign
The sign on the Sun Theater was never really historic or part of the building originally, so it’s been removed, and now for the first time in at least a long time, you can now…
Embarrassing Blight on One of the Most Important Thoroughfares in St. Louis
Imagine, instead of the Church’s Chicken, stately mansions once sitting on this exact stretch of North Grand just blocks from Powell Hall. Luckily, some of those houses still exist, but sadly, they sit in a…
Metropolitan Building, Renewed
Saved from demolition, and from tricky and somewhat poor original building materials, the Metropolitan Artists Lofts is now open and almost full of new tenants. It’s not the largest building in Grand Center, nor the…
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