I never thought I’d see the day when McRee Town saw redevelopment. It’s coming rapidly, and I can only imagine in a decade the old, dilapidated neighborhood will be replaced with renovated buildings.
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Rowhouses, St. Louis Place
I love these rowhouses; since most people live west of Jefferson nowadays, we forget that the vast majority of St. Louis’s population lived in dense housing such as these houses. It’s interesting though, I can’t…
Assorted Houses and Apartments, The Ville
Little Brick Houses, The Ville
I have always thought that that the proportions and scale of one story houses in St. Louis are more aesthetically pleasing and cogent than their two or three story brethren. They are beautiful little masterpieces,…
Notable Houses, The Ville
This house above, an Italianate wood-frame house is surely one of the oldest buildings in the Ville. Below, this fascinating two-family building surely rose along with the Ville’s changing fortunes as the center of African-American…
Belleville Diocese Chancery
Adam Gintz House
Adam Gintz, the founder of the Western Brewery of Belleville (not to be confused with Adam Lemp’s Western Brewery) lived in this house before moving up town in 1895. It is one of the few…
Belleville, Sidestreets
Belleville is not just some suburb of St. Louis; it has long been the county seat of St. Clair County, the seat of a bishop and has its own unique architectural style, while similar to…
Downtown Belleville
Downtown Belleville shows the signs of a central business district that never hit the skids; it is well-occupied, and with numerous slip-covers from the 1950′s and 60′s, it shows that owners updated their buildings frequently…
The Old Stag Brewery’s Legacy, Belleville
There’s not much left of the old Stag Brewery in the northwest corner of the historic central area of Belleville. There’s the office building, which looks to be from around the 1940′s, and the warehouse…
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