The gigantic International Hat Company building hides a secret that most people miss; there is a short street named Allen Market Lane right behind it parallel to Russell Boulevard. You can see it below just to the left of the… Continue Reading
The house above is on Menard right on the interstate; there are in-fill houses being built right next to it on a little triangle of land. Below, on Geyer, we see some of the oldest houses in Soulard, with Greek… Continue Reading
I realized I had actually visited the second location of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Joseph out in Ladue, which is where they moved when Soulard was becoming too industrial back in the early Twentieth Century. Or maybe I should… Continue Reading
Heading north up McNair Avenue from Arsenal Street there is a mix of older exurban houses, such as the one below, with an original alley house, with the later Second Empire examples. The remnants of a saloon sign is still… Continue Reading
Heading away from Salena Street over to Wisconsin Avenue and other nearby streets, there are other Second Empire houses and storefronts. But again, as can be seen further down the block, there are later Twentieth Century buildings, showing that there… Continue Reading
Senate and Congress streets in Benton Park are perfect examples of my old maxim that the street grid of St. Louis were not designed by a central authority, but was laid out by private developers, even brewers such as George… Continue Reading
For lack of a better way of describing them, there are a host of cozy little streets to the southeast of the intersection of Jefferson and Gravois. As is the same behind the other three corners of that bustling crossroads,… Continue Reading
They’ve begun to tear down the Brenton Tower, one of four public housing apartment buildings part of the Lansdowne Towers, located in the northeastern portion of East St. Louis. I’d been by here before, almost exactly two years ago, and… Continue Reading
Unfortunately, crossing over Keokuk, an abandoned and trash early Twentieth Century service station, and its sprawling, invasive and vacant parking lot waste a full third of the block heading up to Chippewa Street. But after the end of the parking… Continue Reading
After Osage Street, the next block of Nebraska Avenue is one that I’ve looked at before, back in 2011; the first photo is the east side of the street. On the other side of the street, after the corner store… Continue Reading