I’ve noticed it in passing before, but this time I was walking down St. Louis Avenue it fully dawned on me how ridiculously wide this street is. While certainly it was planned as a grand…
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North Grand Boulevard, JeffVanderLou
Once bustling with pedestrian traffic, North Grand feels more like a highway nowadays, with stoplights for deserted side streets that don’t have anyone waiting at anyway. It’s hard to imagine what the boulevard would have…
Cleaning up ‘Blight’ in Grand Center
Wow, the time flies by; it seems like just yesterday I was posting pictures of abandoned buildings on Grand just north of Powell Hall. There have been some developments; the abandoned funeral home is being…
Survivors, Westminster Place, Grand Center
A reader alerted me to a beautiful street of homes in Grand Center hiding in the shadow of the Coronado Building on Lindell. Westminster Place, perhaps more famous for its stretch through the Central West…
Two Stupid Demolitions
The Preservation Research Office brought to my attention that two unique and threatened buildings are now either demolished or targeted for demolition soon. Above, a lone survivor on Olive Street of both Grand Center’s tony…
Old North, Early Fall
There’s just something that I love about this wall; it’s a solid mass of brick that once was oozing, wet clay, and now has been holding up this house for a century. Will it survive…
True Row Houses
St. Louis doesn’t have a lot of what I call “true” rowhouses, which are houses are all constructed together, and in many ways structurally they are really long buildings sitting parallel to their street front. …
Here and There in Gravois Park and Benton Park West
As Saturday became more cloudy, I snapped this picture of a corner store with a few additions and subtractions over the years. Gone is the classical pediment, most likely deteriorated from the weather and the…
Burn Outs
North Park Place
An elegant and well-preserved street in Hyde Park is North Park Place. There is very little abandonment, and few vacant lots. The western portion has these interesting duplex houses with side entrances, which is common…
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