There’s a strange little pocket of what was once a much larger neighborhood south of downtown, which is nowadays called LaSalle Park, but was part of the larger Frenchtown quarter of the city. Apparently Ralston-Purina…
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Details, The Shaved Duck
The Shaved Duck occupies a wonderfully restored building at Pestalozzi and Virginia Avenue. I liked the old paint scheme, which was red and blue, but the new one adds a fresh look to…
Tower Grove East
All this week I’m going to be looking at Tower Grove East, one of the most intact neighborhoods east of Grand, and perhaps one of the most stable. While it possesses grand institutional buildings such…
An Interesting Building, Western Downtown
I came upon this nice office building on the western edge of Downtown. I suspect it would have been demolished for 755, but instead it has been restored and is awaiting more tenants.
Just One Street in Soulard
I was driving south down I-55, about to exit at Arsenal Street, when I looked to my left and saw some of the best Second Empire and Italianate houses in the city up on the…
Saint Louis University Law School
I really dislike the bland, monotonous facade of the building at the northeast corner of Tucker and Market Streets–what should be one of the most important addresses in St. Louis. SLU’s law school is updating…
Central Library Atrium Renovations
I went to check out the new atrium and renovations of the Central Library. Initially, I had thought the library was fine as it was, but once I saw how beautifully this palace of books…
Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University, Kirksville
I was always impressed how the 1993 major expansion of Pickler Library embraced the older structure, leaving it largely intact and viewable along its front from the long bridge spanned atrium of the addition. The…
Early Italian Adaptive Reuse
Out the Appian Way, just beyond the city walls of Rome to the south, is the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, one of many monuments that line the road outside of the city. What is fascinating…
Old Customs House, Portland, Maine
Long a centerpiece of the bustling port life of Portland, Maine, the Federal Customs House has stood guard on the harbor since the 19th Century. It is now in the hands of a private developer….
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