Then all of the sudden, the two story tract houses disappear, and there are four identical, one story houses right in front of you.
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Goodfellow Boulevard Between Ridge and Minerva
The term “boulevard” in St. Louis streets parlance does not necessarily represent a particularly wide street with a tree lined median (though it certainly does in places like Lindell, Grand or Tucker), but really more…
Shawmut Place Between Minerva and Ridge Avenues
The eclectic architecture continues up Shawmut Place, with an interesting mix of classical, Gothic, Tudor and little bits of all sorts of different styles. The blocks are long north-south here, which I presume allowed for…
Blackstone Avenue, Between Ridge and Minerva Avenues
Continuing down Blackstone, you come to the realization that the infamous Delmar Divide does not extend to architecture. Houses just as beautiful (and in many instances, identical) to houses in the Central West End or…
Blackstone Avenue in Between Wells and Ridge Avenues
Turning down Blackstone from Wells, the blocks are relatively short in length, but lined with houses and two-families that are constructed to look like single family houses. I particularly like these two apartment buildings, constructed…
Wells Avenue, Between Burd and Blackstone Avenues
The next couple of weeks, I am going to be focusing on the Hamilton Heights neighborhood, tucked up against the western border of the city with MLK on the north, Page on the south, and…
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Assorted Houses, Meramec Valley in Sunset Hills
These first two houses are off of Balmagoun Lane, laid out in the early Twentieth Century as the Sunset Hills area flourished as one of the first automobile suburbs out Gravois. I think this house…
Farmhouse, Sunset Country Club
The VonEime Farm became the Sunset Country Club when Eberhard Anheuser and Adolphus Busch bought the property around 1910. The farmhouse, from the 1850s, was stuccoed and became a dormitory for female country club workers….
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