Originally known as the Evangelisch Lutheran Bethlehem Kirche, this congregation was organized in 1852. It is now part of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. As can be seen on the front facade, the current church is from 1919, which makes sense stylistically. If you were wondering what U.A.C. stands for, it is Unaltered…
Sixteenth Anniversary of St-Style
A hearty and much-deserved congratulations to my close friends Jeff and Randy Vines for the sixteenth anniversary of their shop Stl Style on Cherokee Street. While they’d been making their t-shirts for years before that, their dedication to a brick and mortar store in the city they love is something I’ve always respected about them….
Vinyl, Everywhere
I was giving a tour of Parkway South to Found St. Louis on Friday before the Homecoming football game and was startled to discover every horizontal surface has now been covered with vinyl tiles. What is up with that? Ever heard of texture? It didn’t used to be like that.
Winston Churchill Apartments
Constructed in 1927, the Winston Churchill Apartments are located at the northeast corner of Cabanne Avenue and Belt Avenue. Like many of the large apartment buildings I’ve been looking at in the West End area and neighboring streets, this was another upscale address that replaced what had originally been suburban frame and brick country and…
St. Louis Avenue Between North 23nd and North 25rd Streets, South Side
Moving west of North 23rd Street, we see much less lavish homes. And if we look closely many, but not all, are actually two-family houses. I always joke in St. Louis architects designed multi-family houses to look like single families. Of course, there are obvious multi-family apartment buildings like the ones below. But as I’ve…
St. Louis Avenue Between North 22nd and North 23rd Streets, South Side
While I’ve looked at St. Louis Avenue numerous times over the last eighteen years, I’ve never actually published any photographs of the south side of the street in St. Louis Place (except for ones that have all been demolished and this one weird one). We’ll start at North 22nd Street and work west. First up,…
History of Cass Bank, Part Two
Now we come to the Cass Avenue Bank location that has been in the news, which was built in 1927, showing how quickly the institution had grown in twenty-one years. A severe, late Beaux-Arts building, it served as the headquarters of Cass Bank until 1974. This was near the Carr Square and Old North neighborhoods,…
History of Cass Bank, Part One
Perhaps you’ve been watching the news and heard a lot of coverage of the old Cass Bank building being in the crosshairs of demolition, and then at the last second it had been been saved. I thought it would be helpful to readers to explain what is going on. Cass Bank is still in business…
A New Discovery at the Union Trust Building
It’s long been accepted that Adler and Sullivan’s original design of the round windows on the second floor with bearcat terracotta sculptures and a Damascus arch entryway (seen here) for the 1892 Union Trust Building were removed at some point in the early Twentieth Century. However, we now know it was incorrect to believe that…
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….