The south side of Odell needs it own post. Looks at the old workers’ cottages above, and then also look below. Remember the old miners’ houses in the Tower Grove South Coal Diggings? This house is above is almost identical. More coal mines were near here, after all. But of course, there are some amazing…
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Odell Street Between Ivanhoe and Tamm Avenues, North Side
One block south of Marmaduke Street is Odell, which is one of the most fascinating long blocks in the City of St. Louis. Odell was originally named Cleveland in the Breezy Heights Subdivision, but due to the possible confusion with the street of the same name further east, it was renamed. It is lined with…
Tamm Avenue Between Marmaduke and McCune Avenues
Let’s head south on Tamm Avenue, which is perhaps most famous in Dogtown, but here it is an orphan street that also doglegs through this area (if this sentence makes any sense). There’s these sort of weird Mansard-roofed houses, but I don’t know if I would actually call them Second Empire or not. I guess…
Marmaduke Avenue Between Ivanhoe and Tamm Avenues
Laid out in 1885, the eastern portion of Breezy Heights (I looked at the western portion cut off by the interstate recently) typified suburban living in the late Nineteenth Century with no alleys, and large lots–and different street names originally and long blocks. We’ll look at Marmaduke first, which is the street two down from…
Washington, At Night
I was giving a lecture out in Washington, Missouri, and I had some time to kill so I walked around the downtown, taking some pictures of the historic architecture. Above is St. Peter’s United Church of Christ which was founded in 1844. Below is the City Hall. I wandered down some of the other streets…
Marquette Avenue West of Jamieson Avenue
I’m fascinated by the short, quiet streets tucked in between the River des Peres/Interstate 44 and Jamieson Avenue. Many of the houses are from the late Nineteenth Century, and reflect what would have been distant suburbs from the city at the time. Below is one seriously messed with facade. But I find this area, so…
Breezy Heights
Cut off by Interstate 44 in the 1970s, there’s a small sliver of the Breezy Heights Addition tucked in between the highway to the south and the railroad tracks to the north. Laid out in the late Nineteenth Century, the development was early with an Italianate house or two, but then other houses were built…
Southwest Avenue and Environs, Clifton Heights
I’ve been interested in the old Manchester Road, which is now named Southwest Avenue, for awhile now. I looked at another section of this street back in August of 2021. This is in Clifton Heights, so there are some really old homes, and some more recent ones built in the Twentieth Century. The rolling topography…
East of Downtown, Alton
Heading east on Fifth Street from Easton Street (named after Rufus Easton, the founder of Alton), we see some very early housing. We then angle onto the diagonal Court Street, which mysteriously exists for only about three blocks. We then hop onto Fourth Street as we head out of town. I really like this two-car…
State Street and Environs, Alton
Working my way around on Mill Street over to Carroll, I saw some of the wide variety of houses on the steep slopes of the bluffs to the west of downtown Alton. Below is looking up William Street. Finally, I turned up State Street, which is the main artery up to the bluffs above the…