Fox Park, the eastern neighbor of Tower Grove East, really just blends into the latter’s edge in the rhombus of land between I-44, Grand, Jefferson and Gravois. Named after the lumber company that once partially…
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LaSalle Park, Frenchtown
There’s a strange little pocket of what was once a much larger neighborhood south of downtown, which is nowadays called LaSalle Park, but was part of the larger Frenchtown quarter of the city. Apparently Ralston-Purina…
A Beautiful Block of Cote Brilliante, Devastated by Land Speculation
A friend introduced me to a fascinating block of houses whose construction, unlike much of the city, spanned at least four decades. It is the 4700 block of Cote Brilliante, in what is sometimes called…
Beauvais Manor
Beauvais Manor, sitting across the street from Tower Grove Park, is another fascinating relic of the area’s rural past. As can be seen below, it was once a country house built by Rene Beauvais in…
Italianate Farmhouse, Tower Grove East
Dating from 1848, this old Italianate farmhouse, like others throughout the city, was later surrounded by the rest of Tower Grove East; its fate continues to lie in limbo.
Late Nineteenth Century Houses, Tower Grove East
While much of Tower Grove East was built in the early Twentieth Century, there are houses scattered here and there from the Nineteenth Century, pointing to the area’s early development.
St. Elizabeth’s Convent, Tower Grove East
A fixture in the neighborhood since the 1880′s, the convent of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood has anchored the end of Crittenden Street for generations. Much more simply adorned than its later residential…
Reservoir Market
Soulard Market was not always the only public market in St. Louis; French Market and Mound Market are two other fairly well documented markets that served the residents of St. Louis inside Jefferson Avenue. But…
A Startling Collapse, St. Louis Place Park
What I try to convey to people about the built environment in St. Louis is not just simply the aesthetic quality of its architecture, but the fascinating stories behind each building. Take the German Freethinkers’…
Just One Street in Soulard
I was driving south down I-55, about to exit at Arsenal Street, when I looked to my left and saw some of the best Second Empire and Italianate houses in the city up on the…
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