The Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo dominates the northeastern part of town away from St. Charles’s downtown. There are more beautiful examples of Second Empire and Italianate houses and apartment buildings lining Fifth Street, which is wider through… Continue Reading
Passing into Ferguson on the isolated road from Jennings, I found myself at these low slung apartments. I thought they were abandoned at first, but their tenants’ cars are parked on the other side. I went around town for a… Continue Reading
I’m really worried about Jennings. I have visited a couple times over the years (yes, I understand that a couple of visits is not good enough to get a complete understanding of a community), and every time I go back,… 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
I looked around the residential areas north of Niedringhaus Avenue in Granite City back in early April. The town’s heart is still the steel mill, which lies on the southeastern part of town, but the houses on this side of… Continue Reading
Years ago BeltSTL and I took a drive around Far North County and checked out some old buildings, including this old farmstead. The barns appear to look in good condition, though there has been no progress on finding a new… Continue Reading
I’ve done a series of posts on the “Borderlands,” that strip of land left between St. Louis and the northern suburbs separated by Skinker/Kienlen (two of them you can read here and here). The most relevant one to this post,… Continue Reading
Cote Brilliante Avenue starts out nice enough just northeast of the intersection of Kingshighway and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, but it quickly turns bad the further you go east. You might recognize the street’s name from the nightly news,… Continue Reading
I’ve long said that I think the architecture of North St. Louis is more impressive than that of South St. Louis, and I stand by that. I know many of my friends in the preservation business who agree with me.… Continue Reading
Out in the suburbs of the West End, I think the long block of 5300-5400 Cabanne Avenue, in between Union and Belt Avenues stands out as one of the most interesting. It is just to the north of Windermere Place,… Continue Reading