Modernism crept into the Ville a little bit, with this cool apartment building, which interestingly would have probably faced another building in close proximity, and not the current vacant lot. The porches on the end…
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Cathedral of St. Peter, Belleville
The Cathedral of St. Peter, the head church of the Diocese of Belleville, sits to the south of downtown. It is a Gothic Revival edifice, but with some interesting (strange?) Modernist renovations. Perhaps what is…
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…
Mary Chapel, Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
The Mary Chapel at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows is easily one of the most unique interiors I have entered. It really is the back stage of the exterior facing shrine, and…
Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, in the Snow
What better time to go out to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville? It is dedicated to a snowstorm that hit the Esquiline Hill in Rome centuries ago during the spring….
The Priory, Interior
What is there really to say about the interior of the Priory? It is one of the most sublime spaces in St. Louis, and certainly the pinnacle of Modernist ecclesiastic architecture in St. Louis. Designed…
Tandy Park: An Ensemble of Public Buildings in the Ville
The Ville was the center of African-American life in St. Louis for generations, and really in some ways (and like most St. Louis neighborhoods) functioned as its own little mini-city lying inside of a larger…
Homer G. Phillips Hospital, The Ville
Located in the heart of the Ville, where the African-American middle class thrived for decades before the end of segregation, the Homer G. Phillips Hospital represented the crowning achievement of numerous leaders to open a…
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