What is there really to say about the interior of the Priory? It is one of the most sublime spaces in St. Louis, and certainly the pinnacle of Modernist ecclesiastic architecture in St. Louis. Designed…
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Old Bonhomme Church
Old Bonhomme Church is one of those pleasant surprises tucked away on one of the oldest roads in St. Louis County, Conway Road. Conway, and others, came together to construct a truly unique, vernacular structure,…
Conway Cemetery
We stumbled upon another rural cemetery in West County recently, off of Conway Road. The Conway Cemetery is named after one of the earliest settlers in the St. Louis County area, and the cemetery is…
Great Snowstorm of January 2014 Coming In, Ballwin
I caught this view on the high ground at the corner of Kehr’s Mill and Clayton Road. The storm front was rolling in while I pumped gas. Time will tell how much damage the snow…
Museum of Transportation, Sunset
The Museum of Transportation truly is a hidden gem, and a visit out west to its campus is well worth it. I visited the day after Christmas and snapped some photos of the late afternoon…
St. Louis Institutions, Consigned to Museums
The Museum of Transportation possesses some of the best examples of steam engines in the world, but they’ve also taken in other transportation-related lost souls as well. The last remnant of the famous Coral Courts…
Barretts Tunnel
The Barretts Tunnels, of which the western one is shown in these photographs, lie in West St. Louis County, just west of Kirkwood. The first tunnels west of the Mississippi, the tracks through here were…
St. Paul Road Farmstead, Revisited
I am continually fascinated by St. Paul Road, which wanders back deep into the hills of southwestern St. Louis County. In particular, right at this horribly dangerous curve (the road is 1.5 lanes wide here),…
Historic Pond Drying Up
Remember last year when I posted about all the great historic, if abandoned buildings out in Pond, a small hamlet along Manchester Road in Wildwood? Well, the historic Pond Hotel was demolished, and so was…
Open Pit Mining, Rockwoods Reservation
I wish I could go back in time and see what parts of St. Louis County looked like one hundred years ago, when large portions were out in the middle of nowhere. You would see…
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