Just west of the Lafayette Avenue bridge that leads to Soulard Market, there is a small neighborhood of beautifully preserved houses. Whether it’s in Soulard, the LaSalle Park neighborhood, or the larger Frenchtown area may…
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This House Would Never Be Built Today
This house shows the density at which St. Louis was built. Taking into consideration the street and alley, the house is a wedged shaped pile of brick. No one would fit a house so elegantly…
Across the Street from Bellefontaine Cemetery
This house in the Walnut Park neighborhood sits across the street from the current main entrance of Bellefontaine Cemetery. I suspect that it originally housed workers for the cemetery, as its style of architecture is…
Early Houses, Fox Park and Benton Park West
I’ve continued to be interested in the first generation of houses that appeared out Gravois Avenue past Jefferson in the years after the Civil War. They’re often isolated now, sitting amongst the primary period of…
Anonymous House
I saw this house, sitting in the deep undergrowth, somewhere near Lewis Place; I can’t remember for sure. It’s the last house left on the block practically, and it’s possibly a survivor of a larger…
Marine Villa, Revisited
Few people have heard of Marine Villa, but its the neighborhood south of Cherokee Street and east of Broadway/Jefferson, more of less. It seems to have developed slowly, in the rural areas south of the…
Remnants, Revisited, South Riverfront
In the area I refer to as part of the South Riverfront, is the former mixed use neighborhood of Kosciusko. It’s been mostly demolished, but as I investigated several years ago, there are still a…
More Devastation East of the Interstate
I often tell people that large numbers of people once lived in the areas now east of I-70 and I-55, but that the interstates destroyed their connection to the rest of the city to the…
Alley House Collapse, Old North
I realize that by posting these pictures, I am giving the wrong impression about the overall state of rehabbing and development that is making Old North St. Louis one of the most exciting neighborhoods in…
Vignettes from Castlewood
Valued reader Joyce Pharriss provided an invaluable window of life in what would become Castlewood State Park when it still operated as privately owned resorts along the Meramec River. From the mid-1920′s until about 1961,…
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