If there’s any neighborhood that’s changed the most dramatically as far as the built environment goes in the last decade, it has to be the Grove. Sure, there has been more new construction north of Highway 40, Interstate 64, but… Continue Reading
Shenandoah Avenue in Tower Grove East has older houses than most of the rest of the neighborhood west of Compton Avenue, with a plethora of sturdy Romanesque Revival houses, and also this unique four-family seen above. But if you look… Continue Reading
Update: As of late January, demolition is complete and the bricks stacked (third photo). I made a startling discovery at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Hebert Street in mid December of 2019, where I have been coming and documenting… Continue Reading
Much of the O’Fallon neighborhood is in great shape, and I challenge people who think that all of North St. Louis is a giant wasteland to visit the streets to the west of West Florissant. They are proudly owned, and… Continue Reading
In between Rosalie and Carter on Harris are a row of beautiful four-family apartment buildings, and some of them are occupied, but many are abandoned and deteriorating. Looking east past Carter towards West Florissant Avenue, the block improves, and the… Continue Reading
At this intersection, Rosalie Street and Carter Avenue begin to diverge, creating at first what are a bunch of triangular and then trapezoidal blocks. Builders didn’t seem to have any problem with that, filling them with urban houses and apartment… Continue Reading
Heading north up Clay Avenue from Lee Avenue, there are mostly wood frame houses, many of them with jerkinhead roofs. But there are also many vacant lots. There are many of the small brick bungalows like we saw on the… Continue Reading
Lee Avenue is extra wide as it used to have a streetcar track down the middle of it (the rails are probably still buried under multiple layers of asphalt). It is a heavily abandoned and demolished street, but there are… Continue Reading
I drove by Harrison School years ago, and it’s deeply depressing to see how bad of shape it is in nowadays. In other words, it is totally trashed, and just about all of its windows are knocked out (protective fencing… Continue Reading
I have long said that this website is about giving an honest picture of all of St. Louis, showing that much of the City is unfairly stigmatized and stereotyped. I stand by that. Occasionally, however, I come across an isolated… Continue Reading