Whittier Street. It is actually one of the most culturally significant streets in world cultural history, and the City of St. Louis apparently could care less. It was on this street that modern rock ‘n’ roll was created by Chuck… Continue Reading
Sarah Street is another one of those north-south arteries that is more famous for its path through the Grove or the Central West End, but we must not forget that it goes much further north through neighborhoods that are starved… Continue Reading
Someone has invested some serious money into either relaying or tuckpointing these four family apartment buildings on the short north-sorth Clay Street. They’re beautiful little buildings, built at the same time, and they show how people do care when they… Continue Reading
Moving west on Ashland Avenue, the terrain starts to head downward, and there is a mix of scattered Nineteenth Century houses, and then early Twentieth Century tract houses that were built in the empty spaces. So for example, this Romanesque… Continue Reading
The Greater Ville was built in stages, with early exurban houses built for agricultural uses, and then later houses were built as the city proper came out to the open fields. This photo was taken from New Ashland Place. I… Continue Reading
Continuing on, we see more mid-Twentieth Century in-fill, like one would expect to see in St. Louis Hills in Southwest City. I think what I find so fascinating about these streets is the wide variety of housing stock from the… Continue Reading
There are beautiful, healthy blocks of the Greater Ville, as well. Just one block over from the 4300 block of Labadie, where the abandonment and vacant lots of yesterday were shown, are these totally different, middle class homes, most of… Continue Reading
Moving west on Labadie Avenue, four family apartment buildings predominate, but they are elegant, and meant for the middle class residents who probably hopped on the streetcar in the morning and rode to office jobs downtown in the morning. In… Continue Reading
The eastern end of the Greater Ville has architecture that looks to be from the late Nineteenth Century, and that makes sense, being close to Vandeventer Avenue. Most, but not all, is multi-family, with stern red brick facades. Sadly, abandonment… Continue Reading
Newstead is a long street; it starts all the way down in the Grove, heads north through the Central West End and then finds itself in the Greater Ville. There have been some streetscape improvements, but without private investment, the… Continue Reading