The streets of Grand Center are empty most of the time. The remaining houses are not safe; many of them are in the way of “progress,” We’ll see how many more they manage to tear…
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Random Sights, North St. Louis
Sometimes I drive around the North Side, and I lose track of where I’m at. The above photo is in Hyde Park. The photo above is in the Near North Side. The house below: I…
By the Bissell Mansion, Hyde Park
The Lewis Bissell Mansion is supposedly the oldest standing house in the city of St. Louis, built between 1823 and 1828. Rather interestingly, they’ve recently painted the house red, after being white for years. Not even…
DeMenil Place House
Soulard South of the Brewery
Soulard and Benton park are similar in many ways; really they’re only separate because of the interstate. No more is that obvious than in the three or four quiet blocks of technically Soulard that sit…
Lemp Mansion, Revisited
That crazy bend in I-55 just south of the brewery was not planned; it was added later to save the DeMenil Mansion, which in turn saved the old Lemp Mansion and several buildings of the…
Crumbling Facade
This sad house, sitting among vacant lots on a quiet street in JeffVanderLou, is exhibiting a unique form of deterioration; the front ashlar stone is falling off the front facade. There’s a thick layer of…
Illinois Avenue South of Cherokee
South of Cherokee, on Illinois, the beautiful houses that feature so prominently in Benton Park to the north continue in the Marine Villa neighborhood. Some are rehabbed, some are abandoned, some have been continuously occupied…
Downtown San Antonio, Texas
There’s more to San Antonio than the Spanish heritage, though I personally think that period of time is the most poignant. San Antonio ironically was a relatively small city for most of its history, only…
Gate District Rowhouses
Cut off by I-44 and demolished in large sections, the so-called Gate District still has some surprises, such as these row houses. There used to be thousands of “true” row houses in St. Louis, but…
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