I always loved this house in Hyde Park, but I was worried it would eventually be demolished. Much to my delight, due to a government grant, it has been completely renovated and is occupied.
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The Jewish Orthodox Old Home
I drive around a lot, and see lots of buildings severely damaged by decades of abandonment and neglect, but every so often I come across a building has been abandoned for only a year or…
Business Up Front, Destruction in Back
These houses along Marcus Avenue look alright, just a little rough around the edges, rights? In reality, their red bricks backs have been stolen, leaving nothing but a sagging mess spilling onto the backyards. Luckily…
Anonymous House, West End
Just another abandoned building, right? It will be torn down one day and no one will have noticed. But that is the problem.
Hodiamont Streetcar Right-of-Way and Urban Development
If you’ve ever spent much time in the West End and the Fountain Park neighborhoods, you might have noticed a very strange, almost street-like avenue that cuts between the buildings and has “no trespassing” signs…
The Slow Death of a Stunning Building
I have no idea what Mr. Titsworth, the owner of this stately storefront and accompanying apartment building, has in mind for his property, but I do not approve of it. Easily one of the most…
A Decimated Street of Beautiful Apartment Buildings
Sitting in the shadow of the Roberts Brothers building on North Kingshighway, is this stunning symphony in brick, a complete row of four-family flats now all completely abandoned on Aldine Place. The Roberts Brothers, according…
A Beautiful Block of Cote Brilliante, Devastated by Land Speculation
A friend introduced me to a fascinating block of houses whose construction, unlike much of the city, spanned at least four decades. It is the 4700 block of Cote Brilliante, in what is sometimes called…
A Very Sad Loss By Lewis Place
Built in 1898, the beautiful building across the street from the grand entrance to Lewis Place long anchored this corner, and provided a perfect architectural transition from the private residential street to the more bustling…
St. Liborius Angel?
It’s been long said that many of the sculptures from St. Liborius in St. Louis Place ended up at Sacred Heart in Eureka. I had the opportunity to get inside, but I didn’t really see…
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