We realized we had never looked at St. John United Church of Christ up close, despite long admiring its unrivaled location sitting high upon a hill overlooking the intersection of Manchester and Sulphur Spring roads in Manchester. Of course, the… Continue Reading
I made a startling discovery at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Hebert Street in mid December of 2019, where I have been coming and documenting for over a decade. As part of the City’s effort to demolish vacant buildings,… Continue Reading
The row of houses in between Athlone and Red Bud on West Florissant Avenue facing O’Fallon Park is perhaps one of the most perfect and serendipitous streetscapes in the City of St. Louis. It is a shame that many of… Continue Reading
Closer to the College Hill neighborhood, the O’Fallon neighborhood’s architecture is older, and dates to the Nineteenth Century. Much of it has been abandoned, and there are many vacant lots. I had been down this street before in February of… Continue Reading
South of O’Fallon Park, there are more amazing single family houses and also two-family flats “disguised” as they are throughout the city to look like single family houses. Around the corner on Algernon, I was concerned to discover that the… Continue Reading
Much of the O’Fallon neighborhood is in great shape, and I challenge people who think that all of North St. Louis is a giant wasteland to visit the streets to the west of West Florissant. They are proudly owned, and… Continue Reading
While walking along Warne Avenue, I took a closer look at the ornate bowling alley building on the northwest side of the street just to the southwest of West Florissant Avenue. I had photographed its facade back in September of… Continue Reading
Lee Avenue is extra wide as it used to have a streetcar track down the middle of it (the rails are probably still buried under multiple layers of asphalt). It is a heavily abandoned and demolished street, but there are… Continue Reading
I drove by Harrison School years ago, and it’s deeply depressing to see how bad of shape it is in nowadays. In other words, it is totally trashed, and just about all of its windows are knocked out (protective fencing… Continue Reading
North of Wyoming Street, California Avenue has the normal Benton Park West style houses, influences by the German immigrants who settled here around 1900. There is the heavy influence of the Romanesque Revival. My friends nicknamed the houses below “cyclops”… Continue Reading