I willing be a guest on KMOX AM 1120 at 8:20 AM on Friday, January 17, 2020 talking about the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Prohibition. Please tune in if you’re able! Valley Park has some great architecture along… Continue Reading
Those are company houses, if I’ve ever seen any, I said to my companions, as we drove down Marshall Road in between 4th and 5th streets in Valley Park. The houses seen in my photographs are just above the giant… Continue Reading
The two beleaguered four-family flats owned by out-of-town slumlords on DeSoto Avenue in College Hill have been torn down, which considering their condition, I was not surprised. Their owners may have never even seen them in real life (yes, people… Continue Reading
Wait a minute, I thought to myself, as I looked at the front facade of the Odd Fellows Hall on Lindell Boulevard, there’s something suspicious about that building. As I suspected, as many buildings in the Grand Center and nearby… Continue Reading
The row of houses in between Athlone and Red Bud on West Florissant Avenue facing O’Fallon Park is perhaps one of the most perfect and serendipitous streetscapes in the City of St. Louis. It is a shame that many of… Continue Reading
Closer to the College Hill neighborhood, the O’Fallon neighborhood’s architecture is older, and dates to the Nineteenth Century. Much of it has been abandoned, and there are many vacant lots. I had been down this street before in February of… Continue Reading
South of O’Fallon Park, there are more amazing single family houses and also two-family flats “disguised” as they are throughout the city to look like single family houses. Around the corner on Algernon, I was concerned to discover that the… Continue Reading
Much of the O’Fallon neighborhood is in great shape, and I challenge people who think that all of North St. Louis is a giant wasteland to visit the streets to the west of West Florissant. They are proudly owned, and… Continue Reading
In between Rosalie and Carter on Harris are a row of beautiful four-family apartment buildings, and some of them are occupied, but many are abandoned and deteriorating. Looking east past Carter towards West Florissant Avenue, the block improves, and the… Continue Reading
At this intersection, Rosalie Street and Carter Avenue begin to diverge, creating at first what are a bunch of triangular and then trapezoidal blocks. Builders didn’t seem to have any problem with that, filling them with urban houses and apartment… Continue Reading