While searching in the Whipple fire insurance maps for the northern counterpart of the French Market on the Near South Side, I realized that the history of St. Louis’s Native American inhabitants and this northern…
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Life East of I-70 in North St. Louis
The interstate cut most of the oldest part of the Old North St. Louis from the rest of the city, leaving thousands of homes and businesses cut off from their neighbors. The plan in the…
The Illinois Terminal Railroad Trestle
I saw a great presentation last night about efforts to convert the old Illinois Terminal Railroad trestle through the Near North Side into a bike trail and garden. You can read about it here, and…
New Mississippi Bridge, Towers Almost Topped Out
New Mississippi River Bridge, Revisited
I’ve begun to spot the towers of the new Mississippi Bridge all over town, whether at the corner of Washington and 14th, or in the photo above, as I was driving eastbound down Natural Bridge…
Near North Riverfront
I love the area of the riverfront north of Laclede’s Landing; anchored by the slender Cotton Belt Warehouse (see it here, here and here), the area yearns for reinvestment. Also, I realized I had photographed…
North Broadway, Revisited
As the new Mississippi River Bridge slowly rises north of downtown, it will be interesting to see what happens to the largely desolate stretch of North Broadway that now runs under the approaches to the…
New Mississippi River Bridge Work Continues
St. Louis: Playground to the Entire Region
Why does it seem like everyone who wants to engage in illegal activity feel the need to come down to the City of St. Louis to cause trouble? I’ve started to notice–and it’s a trend…
Near North Riverfront
I can’t believe how much potential lives in the area just north of Laclede’s Landing. Beautiful, relatively stable warehouses await adaptive reuse, but with the economy in the tank, I am afraid that this will…
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