Educate Yourself By Any Means Necessary!!
On the side of a barber and beauty salon as well as a bail bondsman office on St. Louis Avenue at Norwood Avenue. Various famous bounty hunters are depicted on the front of the building.
Spanish Revival
Ziegenhein Funeral Home
Logically, many funeral homes are located across the street from major churches or cemeteries, such as the Ziegenhein Funeral Home. I photographed it before back in 2016.
Old Shriners’ Hospital
The old Shriners’ Hospital, still receiving the finishing touches on its renovation in this photograph, is now open as apartments. Senior citizens interested in taking my OASIS class on Fifteenth Century Italian Renaissance art can sign up for the three… Continue Reading
Engine House No. 8
This fire station is interesting in that it occupies a small portion of the corner of Hyde Park.
Central Institute for the Deaf
People have been hyperventilating for years that this wonderful Spanish Colonial Revival building, which was built for a school that served the deaf, was going to be torn down. It is obviously being renovated right now, so everyone can calm… Continue Reading
Milton Boulevard, Compton Heights
Hawthorne and Longfellow Boulevards are famous in Compton Heights, branching off as they do from the gates right off of Grand Boulevard, but there’s also Milton Boulevard, which cuts off (and is a two-way street) from Hawthorne over to Nebraska… Continue Reading
Fairgrounds Neighborhood, Revisited
The Fairgrounds neighborhood is isolated by closed streets and Fairgrounds Park on the south, but it is an interesting, eclectic neighborhood, architecturally. It shows evidence of having been built up over a very long time, and some houses can already… Continue Reading
Abandoned Parish School, Dutchtown
Another school sits vacant and vandalized; this time it is the old parish school of St. Thomas Aquinas. The caramel terracotta, seen in Southwest St. Louis, looks like marble.
South on Compton Avenue #5, Dutchtown #2
More of Dutchtown south on Compton. Just look at that house above; hardly anybody puts that much effort into making a small house that beautiful anymore today. It might be one of the most striking houses in the city.
Terracotta, Cherokee Street
I’ve always enjoyed this building, with the huge windows on the second floor. I suspect the brick was not painted originally.