Wow, Northwoods is a really nice town! It is a good size, and has the critical mass to have the tax base to be fiscally solvent without engaging in any of those tricks that violate the Constitution and Bill of… Continue Reading
Beverly Hills is tucked in between Velda City and Natural Bridge Road, and is a quiet hamlet of Arts and Crafts bungalows. It is one of the smallest of the North County villages.
Velda City is a pretty little suburb in North County, and one of the larger ones, with its own police department based in the valley where there looks to be a former small business district. Like many of the towns… Continue Reading
Perhaps I’ll just let the photographs speak for themselves; Kingsbury Place is not the most famous of the private streets in St. Louis, but it certainly holds its grounds in the finesse of its architecture. What is most interesting is… Continue Reading
I was checking up on one of my favorite houses in the city, the stately manse at the southwest corner of Cook and Whittier, and I proceeded west down Cook Avenue, where there are some more exceptional examples of early… Continue Reading
This house’s façade tells a story. Its original slate roof tiles survive, but then it lost its front porch roof at some point, and someone tried to patch the mustard color brick, and then at some point, maybe before the… Continue Reading
Last fall, I did a post entitled “North Up Blair Avenue,” which looked at a cross section of the neighborhoods that were affected by the construction of Interstate 70, but that also show signs of rebounding. Beginning above, a house… Continue Reading
I realized almost all of the houses on Union Boulevard between Interstate 70 and West Florissant Avenue in Walnut Park are wood frame houses. For some reason, this stretch of street was built up early. Unfortunately, now they are falling… Continue Reading
Down under the towering eastern approaches of the Martin Luther King Bridge, there is B Street, and there are a couple of houses that are occupied (not shown). Who are they? I did not have time to stop and ask,… Continue Reading
The Cabanne House is named after Jean Pierre Cabanne, one of the landowners of what became Forest Park. It was designed in 1879 by John McNamara in the Second Empire style as the residence of the park’s superintendent, and functioned… Continue Reading