Old State Road follows a ridge line through the foot hills, providing a link from Manchester Road near Ellisville down to Eureka. I imagine it is a very old road. It appears in Julius Pitzmann’s famous map of St. Louis… Continue Reading
Rising up quickly from the Roman campagna where Hadrian’s Villa can be found, you hit towering mountains, and the train snakes through gorges and canyons. A waterfall can be spotted off in the distance, and after a tunnel or two,… Continue Reading
There’s this genteel old farmhouse sitting out on St. Albans Road on Manchester Road, way out in Wildwood. It was built in 1910, but I don’t know anything else about it. It was a nice house, with what looks to… Continue Reading
Oh, so this is Uplands Park, I thought to myself, as I pulled off Natural Bridge Road just west of Pine Lawn and the City limits. There are several streets of beautiful and well-kept houses, of a variety of styles… Continue Reading
The block south of Flad Avenue, which is Cleveland, has rows of houses in the typical “Tower Grove” style, with four rooms down, and four rooms up. They have been renovated nicely, as can be seen in these photos. We… Continue Reading
Heading back west on Flad Avenue away from Grand Boulevard, the south side of the street has a different feel, with the Tudor Revival influenced house above. But there is another more Romanesque Revival house above with its huge tower.… Continue Reading
Like the first blocks west of Grand to the north, the 3600 Block of Flad is filled with impressive single family houses that show their owners’ and builders’ German heritage. Conical-roofed topped towers, turrets and rounded Roman arched windows show… Continue Reading
The house above is really two apartments, which you can see in the two front doors. It sits next to single family houses, such as the ones below. If you look below, you can see that the dormers alternate between… Continue Reading
There is a beautiful feature of the “interior” of the Shaw neighborhood; there is but one surface parking lot, and that is at the old Sherman Elementary School. Other than that, every single business, church and school thrives with only… Continue Reading
The south side of Castleman in between Klemm and Thurman has more of the same types of houses that we have seen along the street. It is a wonderful mix of the beauty that makes the neighborhood so interesting.