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 are may…
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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…
Fox Park, Revisited
Fox Park is in transition; it has many beautiful streets, many troubled ones, but one thing remains: it has amazing housing stock, much of it older than nearby Tower Grove East to the west or…
Ruins Week: Lewis Place
Not completely ruined yet, but I found the house interesting, nonetheless. It was probably one of the first houses out this far, almost to Kingshighway.
St. Louis Stamping/Hammond Sheet Metal Company
The former stamping and sheet metal company on Cass has seen a fair amount of renovation recently, opening up what had been a previously vacant building. Read the National Register nomination here.
Cherokee Street Storefront Additions
I might have posted this before, but I never get tired of of these two houses, dating back to the late Nineteenth Century, but both very obviously receiving storefronts in the Twentieth Century as the…
Around Downtown Kirkwood
It’s interesting; Kirkwood’s main street, Kirkwood Road, doesn’t have spectacular buildings, but they’re all occupied, well-maintained and serving a purpose. Perhaps that is the most important thing sometimes? Above is this cool Modernist office building….
2600 Block of Howard Street, JeffVanderLou
Streets like Howard Street, once just a pleasant street with housing that surely promoted close-knit neighborhoods, now sits abandoned. It’s some of the oldest housing in the city, and it’s rapidly disappearing.
Menard Correctional Center, Chester, Illinois
Is it weird to describe a prison as beautiful? The ancient walls of the Menard Correctional Center stand proudly over the Mississippi River northwest of Chester. The warden’s office looks like a plantation house, not…
Sad Abandonment around Cairo, Illinois
While there is still much good left in Cairo, the truth is that much of the town is devastated. We’ll leave town with this survey of some of the abandonment we saw.
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