Before heading east on Castleman Avenue from Tower Grove Avenue, we see an apartment building that bends around the intersection. There is a substantial setback from the street, befitting the suburban feel of the original platting of the area. Once… Continue Reading
Castleman Avenue between 39th Street and Spring Avenue continues the trend of its eastern block before Grand Boulevard with no alleys, but the houses are newer, reflecting more English influence in its architecture. There is more the influence of the… Continue Reading
Looking at the south side of Russell Boulevard, again we see more houses that you would expect to see in the West End of St. Louis, three stories with Dutch Colonial rooflines or gabled roofs with elaborate dormers, as seen… Continue Reading
Russell Boulevard isn’t really a boulevard anymore west of Grand; but nonetheless, it continues the neighborhood’s mix of single family houses with high class four-family flat apartment buildings. It’s becoming increasingly common that these four apartments are being converted into… Continue Reading
Crossing the street to the south side of Russell Boulevard, and walking west of the Hutcheson Arms, at first we see similar houses–though if you look closely you realize it is really a two-family flat. Then we arrives at a… Continue Reading
Moving east from the corner with Spring Avenue, there is a banquet of exceptional houses on Russell Boulevard, with large cut stone facades and complex dormers and towers on houses. While the house below would probably not have been painted… Continue Reading
Occasionally I come across a house so amazing that I need to feature multiple photographs and details of it. That is the case of the stunner on the northeast corner of Spring Avenue and Russell Boulevard. It almost takes up… Continue Reading
Crossing the street and then looking at the houses on the south side of Castleman Avenue, we see there are just as beautiful houses. Again, there is no alley, so there are driveways. We see houses with gambrel roofs, such… Continue Reading
I realized something recently; of the 4,329 posts on this site, only nine of them are of the incredibly historic Shaw neighborhood (and one of those is of the replacement of interstate bridges on the northern edge!). That works out… Continue Reading
If there’s any neighborhood that’s changed the most dramatically as far as the built environment goes in the last decade, it has to be the Grove. Sure, there has been more new construction north of Highway 40, Interstate 64, but… Continue Reading