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,…
Southeast Carondelet, Early September 2026, Part One
I was trying to get a better view of the Italgrani grain elevator but didn’t have very good luck, as can be seen above. I did have better luck checking in some of my favorite streets in Carondelet that I had last looked at back in May of 2022. What is particularly interesting is that…
Vulcan Street, Early September 2026
I returned to the 7700 block of Vulcan Street that is tucked away in a quiet corner of Carondelet sometimes known as the Patch. Some houses, such as the ones above and below are occupied by stalwart owners, hanging on as industry creeps in around them. I’ve looked at this street in November of 2012,…
End of Summer Odds and Ends
It’s a little late, but here are the odds and ends for the summer of 2026. Above, I snapped this photo of the wall of industry you spot as you pass under the Bellerive Bridge into Carondelet southbound on Broadway. Above is the vanished Twenty-First Street Bridge over the Mill Creek Valley. It is one…
Gingham Girl Flour Mill, Interior
There’s a very cool public art exhibit going on around St. Louis called CounterPublic, which you can read about here. As part of that exhibit, we were recently able to see the interior of the old Gingham Girl grain elevator on Chouteau’s Landing. Amazingly, none of the grain chutes or other funnels had been removed,…