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Kingshighway, Fall 2019

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

Kingshighway south of Lindell is dominated by apartment buildings, but most importantly by the hospitals which have come to symbolize the east end of Forest Park. The Park Plaza tower to the north will always be a landmark, above, but… Continue Reading →

Central Apartment Buildings, Apartment Towers, Art-Deco, Beaux-Arts, Central West End, Hospitals, Hotels, Modernism, Monuments, Parks
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Demolition of St. Mary of the Angels Convent

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.” Luke 21:6 As some readers have helpfully informed me, I am far too… Continue Reading →

County Central County, Churches, Demolition, Hospitals, Parking Lots, Romanesque Revival
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Old Shriners’ Hospital, Complete

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

The rehab of the old Shriners’ Hospital is complete, and it is now open as apartments. It won one of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis annual most improved awards for 2019.

Central Apartment Buildings, Central West End, Hospitals, Moorish Revival, Rehabilitation, Spanish Revival
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St. Agnes Home

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

Given by Elizabeth Moehring to the Carmelite Sisters in 1929, the St. Agnes Home opened in 1935 in the far northeastern corner of Kirkwood. It reminds me of an old monastery you might see in Normandy along the British Channel… Continue Reading →

County Central County, Hospitals, Kirkwood, Romanesque Revival
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Clemens Avenue

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

My discoveries usually begin with a question: why does Clemens Avenue just north of the old St. Luke’s Hospital on Delmar curve in the middle of the block, for seemingly no reason? Looking at old Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, we… Continue Reading →

North Abandoned Buildings, Apartment Buildings, Early Twentieth Century Eclectic, Hospitals, Houses, In-Fill, Parking Lots, Post-Modernism, Redevelopment, West End
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College Hill in the Snow #1: Introduction

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

College Hill is probably a neighborhood that many of my readers have never heard of, and possibly have never visited. It takes its name from the former Saint Louis University farm that once sat on the southern slope of the… Continue Reading →

North Abandoned Buildings, Churches, College Hill, Hospitals, Houses, Hyde Park, Modernism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire, Storefronts, Vacant Lots
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South Down Blair Avenue, Afternoon, Early February 2019

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

The undergrowth has been cleared from around the old Jewish Orthodox Old Home, and it looks like it has been secured to keep people out. It is still owned by a non-profit in Florida, though it owes considerable back property… Continue Reading →

North Abandoned Buildings, Beaux-Arts, Early Vernacular, Hospitals, Houses, Hyde Park, Italianate, Queen Anne Style, Second Empire
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St. Vincent’s, Revisited

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

I thought it was time to swing back by the old St. Vincent’s Hospital just north of St. Charles Rock Road, when the light was getting long and the eastern façade was beginning to be shrouded in shadows. The building… Continue Reading →

County Hospitals, North County, Rehabilitation, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival
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Old Shriners’ Hospital

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Chris Naffziger

Update: Construction was completed in 2019. The old Shriners’ Hospital, still receiving the finishing touches on its renovation in this photograph, is now open as apartments.

Central Central West End, Hospitals, Moorish Revival, Rehabilitation, Spanish Revival
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Little Sisters of the Poor

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Chris Naffziger

Many people, includeding me, were deeply saddened to learn of the impending closure of the Little Sisters of the Poor’s Nursing Home in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. They have been unable to find an operator, but I hope they… Continue Reading →

North Hospitals, Modernism, St. Louis Place

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