I found a couple of old photos from about a decade ago of two corner storefronts in Gravois Park, a neighborhood that has undergone rapid and major changes in the last twenty years. Older residents have told me it had… Continue Reading
Inspired by a World Wide Magazine visit to the intersection of Grand and Gravois, I photographed the old South Side National Bank. It’s been turned into condos or apartments. It was going to be demolished for a Walgreen’s but cooler… Continue Reading
I know I swore sometime back in 2007 or 2008 that I would never let St. Louis Patina become one of those “St. Louis Then and Now” sites, instead focusing on the here and now, and how historic architecture influences… Continue Reading
Just west of Arkansas, prosperity ironically led to the annihilation of the historic buildings due to the need for parking lots for a bank. To the southwest, of course, was the old St. Anthony’s Hospital, which then went through different… Continue Reading
Between Tennessee and Virginia avenues, Chippewa Street is almost entirely residential, and the buildings are a mixture of different revival styles from around the year 1900. They are in great shape, for the most part. So much for those balconies,… Continue Reading
Update: See more of the street with historic photos from late summer of 2020. Hold on to your seats, because I need to do some explaining. In between Jefferson Avenue and Grand Boulevard, Chippewa Street bisects two neighborhoods, Gravois Park… Continue Reading
Writing back in May of 2017 of this house, on the west side of Compton just north of Chippewa in the Gravois Park neighborhood, I stated, “Hopefully one day it will be renovated.” My wishes came true. I am not… Continue Reading
Gravois Park is such a beautiful neighborhood, and I feel bad that it is often times in the news and in the conversations of South City residents for the wrong reasons. Further afield, it is a community known to few… Continue Reading
Heading down Louisiana south of Cherokee Street, a fascinating mix of extremely old wood frame houses pop up in between the normal early Twentieth Century streetcar suburban houses that Gravois Park is known for. But they point to the early… Continue Reading
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that I created a new Special Topics tag a month or so entitled “South Jefferson.” South of Interstate 44, the original Nineteenth Century streetscape is incredibly well-preserved, so for the next couple of days, I’m… Continue Reading