At the same time I sneaked Cape Cod in as a new tag, I also slid Ranch House in to my list of architectural styles. The ranch house represented a revolution in the middle class house as it became prevalent after World War II in that it rotated the mass of the house from being…
Saint Trinity Cemetery, South County
Saint Trinity Cemetery on Lemay Ferry at Reavis Barracks Road is a place that I’ve driven by dozens of times, and this time I finally went in and explored. I’ve always thought the name is interesting, being Saint Trinity instead of Holy Trinity. There is no explanation why that is. The cemetery has a very…
North Grand Boulevard Between North Market Street and Natural Bridge Avenue
Crossing North Market Street, we see the newly christened St. Josephine Bakhita Parish, which is the former Sts. Theresa and Bridget. Due to the closure of a number of other parishes, there was a consolidation of borders. A former convenience store has opened up with a new owners… Joseph Baker Wallpaper and Paint, from what…
North Grand Boulevard Between Finney Avenue and North Market Street
North Grand Boulevard is in transition; half of the right-of-way is being converted into a Great Rivers Greenway to connect Fairground Park to the center of the city. North Grand is also one of the most devastated stretches of a major thoroughfare. We’ll start at Finney Avenue and head north for two days. Above, this…
Casa de Salud, Former Pinkley Motors
I figured there was more to the building at the southwest corner of Chouteau and South Compton avenues. From around 1950 to 1961, this was Pinkley Motors. I couldn’t find much information on the company, but the Bob and Tom Show had a skit on their radio show with the same name. Anyone know the…
What is a Cape Cod House?
Keen-eyed readers might have noticed I sneaked a “Cape Cod” tag into my site a few years ago. But what exactly is a Cape Cod styled house? It is the most basic of houses in Western architecture: four walls creating a rectangle with a steep gabled roof above. Along the long side of the rectangle,…
Alaska Avenue, Dutchtown, Part Three
Further north, we approach the end of Alaska Avenue at Osceola Street. There are row after row of one story tract homes, each different in their brick color and pattern, but still basically the same house that are three bays wide and a metal cornice. The metal cornices were made in a workshop during the…
Alaska Avenue, Dutchtown, Part Two
Continuing north of Alaska Avenue, we see a variation on the classic four-family apartment building, with a simple front but variagated brick. Then there’s a mix of one story single family houses. We then encounter a tract of two story, two family houses which are all exact in massing and probably interior, but with slightly…
Alaska Avenue, Dutchtown, Part One
I decided to take a look at Alaska Avenue, a street in far south Dutchtown that is southwest of Virginia Avenue (former Stringtown Road), meaning that it does not make it north of Meramec Street. So it’s a state street, but even though it’s north-south, it’s much shorter than other state streets in the old…
Southeast Carondelet, Early September 2026, Part Two
I looked at this house back in July of 2018 and it is still occupied and in good condition. There are other interesting buildings nearby that are typical Carondelet houses: hipped roof, two bay wide homes, are common like the one above in addition to gable roof houses. Sometimes they are only one story high,…