Bad news from the 7700 Block of Vulcan Street in the Patch neighborhood of Carondelet. While several homes are still occupied and maintained, fire broke out in the early evening on January 31, gutting the two stone houses and spreading to the brick house next door. I even think this house below might be occupied…
Tag: Greek Revival
Sad Loss in Bohemian Hill
A critical surviving component of the rapidly disappearing Bohemian Hill neighborhood was severely damaged by fire on January 15, 2024. While the front was clearly replaced in the early Twentieth Century, the building itself surely dated to well back into the Nineteenth Century. (Note: You can actually see the belltower of the church damaged in…
The Mysterious Long Lost Phillip Gibson Stone House
Every so often I come across something completely strange and mysterious, and in this case it is a survivor, a stone house located in the back of a lot in Midtown near the right-of-way of Highway 40, and long since obliterated like the neighborhood that grew up around it, leaving no trace of its existence…
Lemp Avenue Across from the Lemp Brewery
Heading north from South Broadway is an interesting row of buildings, starting first with this building that now houses the music venue Off Broadway. There is an anachronistic Lemp Beer sign on the south side of the building. I actually looked at the house below before in April of 2022. Next is a large black…
South Broadway from Schirmer to Loughborough Avenue
With the old South Public Market on our right, we turn left onto South Broadway from Schirmer Street. Before we get to Steins Street, there is this impressive row of commercial spaces. Many of them were probably built as Greek Revival houses that were then converted into stores with long cast iron beams holding up…
Schirmer Street East of St. Boniface
The houses east of St. Boniface are very old, including these two above. Sadly, their neighbor to the east didn’t make it. It was a very old two-story half-flounder, and while it had some structural issues, I wonder how bad it had gotten. Development is slow in this neighborhood, unfortunately. There’s some nice wood frame…
St. Louis Avenue, St. Louis Place, Winter 2024
Heading east on St. Louis Avenue into the St. Louis Place neighborhood, perhaps I was struck at how little had changed since the last time I had examined this beautiful stretch. The same houses sit abandoned among vacant lots. The same houses sit in weird purgatory, while others are still well-preserved and in great shape….
South Illinois Street, Belleville
I’ve looked at the area south of downtown Belleville before, but this time I found myself heading up South Illinois Avenue towards the central square where it intersects Main Street. I have to love that Second Empire house above, which looks to be coated in stucco. It’s a new height of hiding a Mansard roof!…
Washington, At Night
I was giving a lecture out in Washington, Missouri, and I had some time to kill so I walked around the downtown, taking some pictures of the historic architecture. Above is St. Peter’s United Church of Christ which was founded in 1844. Below is the City Hall. I wandered down some of the other streets…
East of Downtown, Alton
Heading east on Fifth Street from Easton Street (named after Rufus Easton, the founder of Alton), we see some very early housing. We then angle onto the diagonal Court Street, which mysteriously exists for only about three blocks. We then hop onto Fourth Street as we head out of town. I really like this two-car…