My colleague and former North County resident, Toby Weiss, wrote up this stellar summary of the history of West Florissant Avenue. She’s been photographing this street for years (I had the opportunity to join her…
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Providence Fine Arts Center, Edmundson
We went a lot of weird places this last weekend, and this isolated corner of Edmundson where this stately church sits is another place off the beaten track we discovered. It is now the Providence…
Valhalla Mausoleum, Revisited
I was thinking those Norse warriors out front of the Valhalla Cemetery mausoleum weren’t there before when I visited in 2011! Does anyone know if these are original, and therefore probably being conserved offsite the…
More Fort Bellefontaine
Besides the iconic staircase at Fort Bellefontaine, there is also a spring that legends claim served as a water source for Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Back up on top of the bluff, past the staircase,…
Fort Bellefontaine Staircase
Fort Bellefontaine Park, far north at the very end of Bellefontaine Road (Broadway in the city) remains one of the most beautiful but neglected sites in the region. What is interesting about the site is…
Friedens Chapel, Chambers Road
It was increasingly common the in the mid-Twentieth Century to establish new churches, or “chapels” out in St. Louis County as congregations’ members moved further out from the city. The Friedens Chapel on Chambers Road…
Mount Lebanon Cemetery
I often learn interesting things from my readers, and recently one visitor to my site informed me that the large potter’s field near the St. Louis Insane Asylum was dug up in the 1950’s and…
Friedens Cemetery
We looked at the Friedens Church in Hyde Park yesterday, and now we move out to the associated cemetery just outside the City of St. Louis on North Broadway, or Bellefontaine Road. The burial records…
Northwest Plaza Demolition Continuing
The demolition of Northwest Plaza, once the queen of the shopping malls of St. Louis, continues. As the ill-fated, and revealed by the demolition of the cheaply built enclosure of the mall in the late…
Northwest Plaza Demolition
I didn’t have much time so I snapped a couple of bad photos, but I will return and document more of the demolition of what was once the largest outdoor mall in the world.
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