In between the big houses and mansions of the elite of Soulard on 12th and 13th streets, the less wealthy lived in more “normal” residential architecture. This is normal; throughout major American cities classes were rigidly stratified on different types… Continue Reading
Menard Street continues the theme of older Greek Revival construction, and they even have some of their original (or at least tastefully reconstructed) balconies. Look closely at the houses below; the two Second Empire houses at the right are traitors… Continue Reading
Allen Avenue and nearby has an interesting collection of houses, in that they are much older, Greek Revival buildings with the distinctive pedimented dormers, simple post and lintel windows and dentillated cornices made of brick. They probably date to the… Continue Reading
The gigantic International Hat Company building hides a secret that most people miss; there is a short street named Allen Market Lane right behind it parallel to Russell Boulevard. You can see it below just to the left of the… Continue Reading
This is one of my favorite Second Empire houses in the city, and it sits right around the corner from Soulard Market. I photographed it way back in 2011.
The house above is on Menard right on the interstate; there are in-fill houses being built right next to it on a little triangle of land. Below, on Geyer, we see some of the oldest houses in Soulard, with Greek… Continue Reading
Twelfth Street through Soulard was the major street if there ever was one, and it still holds some of the more famous businesses in the neighborhood. Like Thirteenth, it held the more important and wealthy residents’ houses, as it was… Continue Reading
I’m pleased to report there’s been steady progress on the wonderful Dr. Franz Arzt House on Twelfth Street at Lami. See my original article at St. Louis Magazine showing pictures of the interior by Jason Gray right before renovation began.… Continue Reading
The giant Romanesque Revival mansion above, sitting on the crest of the hill above Soulard on 13th Street, wouldn’t have been built when Compton and Dry was drawn in 1875. But some of the houses were already built, even if… Continue Reading
I call these houses the “mystery houses,” and I’ll explain why. They seem to appear on Compton and Dry from 1875, and if you look closely in the lower right corner of the image below, just below the letter R… Continue Reading