I came across this isolated block recently, and I was impressed with the architecture of these houses. I like the one above with its improvements. Doesn’t look like it has been abandoned long. I…
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Martin Luther King Dr, Between Burd and Hodiamont Avenues
Here is the Wellston Loop, which stretched from the actual town of Wellston into St. Louis. It is in transition, and only the future will show what its fate will hold.
Hodiamont Avenue, Borderlands
Hodiamont Avenue was a street car line, and it ran right along the border of St. Louis to the Wellston Loop. It is pretty much the last north-south street before St. Louis County, and many of…
Houses, Revisited, Grand Center
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…
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…
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