This house above, an Italianate wood-frame house is surely one of the oldest buildings in the Ville. Below, this fascinating two-family building surely rose along with the Ville’s changing fortunes as the center of African-American…
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Wood Frame Houses and Arson, The Ville
The old age of the Ville shows in the disproportionate number of surviving wood frame houses. Built before brick fire codes reached them, these houses sheltered the first inhabitants of the area when it was…
The Ville, In Extensus
The Ville is one of the oldest neighborhoods in St. Louis, which is surprising in that it is way out past Grand, which was still mostly farmland well into the first decade of the Twentieth…
St. Louis Place Ruin in the Snow
This is one of only five or so houses left in the southern end of St. Louis Place. I was saddened to see that it’s starting to collapse. See it back when it was in…
Wells-Goodfellow #5: Academy Avenue to Cote Brilliante Avenue
Tucked back in a corner of Wells-Goodfellow behind the Wohl Community Center, the streets of Academy and Cote Brilliante have some interesting treasures. The houses are largely occupied, but not in the greatest of shape….
Wells-Goodfellow #4
One of the last neighborhoods in the city to be built, in the early decades of the Twentieth Century, Wells-Goodfellow is a huge area. I’ve tried to really grasp the character of this neighborhood, and…
The West End on a Dreary Day
I got back over to the West End, that neighborhood on the edge of the city limits and north of Delmar. It is a neighborhood of impressive housing stock, often equal to the more famous…
Adam Gintz House
Adam Gintz, the founder of the Western Brewery of Belleville (not to be confused with Adam Lemp’s Western Brewery) lived in this house before moving up town in 1895. It is one of the few…
Belleville, Sidestreets
Belleville is not just some suburb of St. Louis; it has long been the county seat of St. Clair County, the seat of a bishop and has its own unique architectural style, while similar to…
The Old Stag Brewery’s Legacy, Belleville
There’s not much left of the old Stag Brewery in the northwest corner of the historic central area of Belleville. There’s the office building, which looks to be from around the 1940′s, and the warehouse…
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