Now Enrolling
My favorite mystery house in JeffVanderLou is now a daycare, apparently.
Post-Modernism
Meadowbrook
Meadowbrook Country Club is part golf course, and part subdivision, which wraps itself around the greens. There are some interesting Modernist houses mixed in among later houses. The properties seem to have developed over the course of several decades. Houses… Continue Reading
Crumby Run-Down Malls of St. Louis #5: Northwest Plaza “Reborn”
Did you ever have a friend who went through a rough patch, and then when they finally moved past that hardship, they just never were the same anymore? That’s sort of what I feel like when I look at Northwest… Continue Reading
Crumby Run-Down Malls of St. Louis #4: St. Louis Mills
After we saw a news report about how devastated St. Louis Mills was, we knew we needed to take a trip out there Saturday morning. We were not disappointed–I don’t think I’ve seen any other malls in my Dead Malls… Continue Reading
Wells-Goodfellow #47, Arlington School Rehabilitated
Despite the assurances of plenty of nay-sayers, the abandoned Arlington School, which I photographed in 2009, could be saved and is now impeccably restored. Tasteful in-fill has been added around the old school.
Wells-Goodgellow #39, Miscellaneous Houses on Semple Avenue
I know the house above was built sometime in the last two decades, but now it sits abandoned as well. What is the point of putting a band-aid on a gaping chest wound? It looks to have been gutted by… Continue Reading
Amazing Survivors, Compton Hill/Gate District
Lafayette Avenue, long replaced by I-44, is lined with some stunning houses on it, and its side streets. Above is a funeral parlor, probably built for that function. Above, this stately Second Empire mansion sits in the trees; I’ll come… Continue Reading
Decimated JeffVanderLou
JeffVanderLou is easily one of the most devastated and forgotten neighborhoods in the city. Straddling Grand Boulevard, it is not in the news anymore, as there are few people left. This poor church, below, was ravaged by brick thieves years… Continue Reading
Park Clayton Apartments
I wonder what was here originally.
New Fence, Revisited, JeffVanderLou
I continue to be fascinated by this ridiculous abandoned in-fill house, which at most was occupied for less than five years. Its Virginia owners, I realized, spent some real dough on adding that really nice front gate, and this nice… Continue Reading