The Shanley Building was designed by Harris Armstrong and opened in the 1930s. It is currently in use as a private contractor offering driver’s licenses. When I was there last week, there was a sign on the door stating, “We… Continue Reading
Further on down College Avenue is a beautiful stretch of preserved houses that creates a street wall and rhythm in their architectural unity. Most of the houses are occupied, as well. There are also some very old houses, as well.… Continue Reading
We met a homeowner in one of those HUD houses, as we call them, who’d lived in the neighborhood for forty years. We talked for a while and discussed the house next door, with a mysterious terracotta coat of arms… Continue Reading
DeSoto Avenue also has some surprises, such as this Tudor Revival latecomer to the neighborhood, which sits on a corner. The architect factored the corner lot into the composition, and the house works from different elevations. But moving west, more… Continue Reading
So what is going on here? The only homogeneous blocks in all of College Hill are the Modernist bungalows and duplexes, and in they fill 80% of the 1500 block of Gano Avenue. What was here? Compton and Dry and… Continue Reading
John Avenue continues to have a wide range of houses, many in the Second Empire style and also some Italianate influences mixed in. Many houses are abandoned, but there is a fair amount of well-maintained houses with their owners holding… Continue Reading
College Hill is probably a neighborhood that many of my readers have never heard of, and possibly have never visited. It takes its name from the former Saint Louis University farm that once sat on the southern slope of the… Continue Reading
This stately complex, featuring a very large chapel for a former Benedictine convent has had several other roles over the years, including serving as St. Mark’s Parish until recently, which has now moved to a building on the campus on… Continue Reading
Ferry Street heads southeast at a diagonal down towards the river, but has been cut off by Interstate 70. The remaining houses are a cross section of Hyde Park. There are some extremely old houses, such as the wood frame… Continue Reading
Designed by Patrick M. O’Meara and James B. Hills, Villa Duchesne was opened in 1929 by Mother Mary Reid of the Society of the Sacred Heart, in the architectural style that could be described as “Norman Revival” but what I will label… Continue Reading