Cote Brilliante Avenue starts out nice enough just northeast of the intersection of Kingshighway and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, but it quickly turns bad the further you go east. You might recognize the street’s name from the nightly news,… Continue Reading
I’ve long said that I think the architecture of North St. Louis is more impressive than that of South St. Louis, and I stand by that. I know many of my friends in the preservation business who agree with me.… Continue Reading
Just more of the beautiful, eclectic architecture that you see in the West End continues on Cates Avenue north of the old St. Luke’s Hospital. Look at the wood carving on the porch below. The house below has seen some… Continue Reading
Historic aerial photography reveals that Bircher Boulevard used to be just that, a tree-lined, elegant boulevard in North St. Louis, separating the Penrose and Walnut Park neighborhoods. But then Interstate 70 came along, and annihilated it, turning Bircher Boulevard into… Continue Reading
Update: Identified as 4370 Cook Avenue in the greater Lewis Place neighborhood. I have no idea where this is. I lost track of the location, and when I tried Googling the name of the church on the sign, it came… Continue Reading
Back in January of this year, I took pictures of the east side of the 20th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood, and in February, I came back, this time photographing the west side of the street. There are some… Continue Reading
College Avenue is an interesting mix of buildings, to say the least. There is the famous house above, and there is the stately Tudor Revival house below. We first spotted the house above in May of 2010 (fifth photo), and… Continue Reading
There are many well-maintained streets, such as Zealand Avenue (second photo), in College Hill, where we saw homeowners sweeping their sidewalks out in front of their bungalows. But there is also abandonment, sadly, such as this stately house below, which we… Continue Reading
We met a homeowner in one of those HUD houses, as we call them, who’d lived in the neighborhood for forty years. We talked for a while and discussed the house next door, with a mysterious terracotta coat of arms… Continue Reading
Moving west on DeSoto Avenue, there is not much to say beyond the first house above, which is well-maintained and occupied. The blocks moving west are empty, vacant and deteriorating. It is deeply sad. A few of the houses are… Continue Reading