I came across this house on Lindell; it is truly exceptional, because it doesn’t look like a house in St. Louis. It looks like it belongs in Boston or New York, but I am glad it is here regardless.
Month: May 2009
Rose Bush, Tower Grove East
Update: The rose bush is now dead after being severely damaged by the hard winter of 2014. I revisited it in 2010. This is the giant rose in my backyard; I have no idea exactly what species it is or anything. I have the feeling that it is very, very old. Someone must have planted…
Score One for St. Louis City
Update: The coach in question was later terminated and the Rams moved back to Los Angeles. The Post-Dispatch reports that the new coach for the Rams will be living in Lafayette Square.
May 2009 at the San Luis
Update: Looking back now as of January of 2021, I quite frankly don’t know why I was so worked up about the demolition of the San Luis. It really was not an attractive building–it was actually quite mediocre and dated–so I don’t blame the Archdiocese for tearing it down. In fact, I have a great…
Lemp Mansion, Sunset
Update: Oops! I posted the same photo a week later.
Fourteenth Street Mall, Revitalized
I returned in the winter of 2022 and many other times. Saturday saw the return of the Old North St. Louis House Tour, featuring the newly renovated apartments and shops along the soon to be reopened 14th Street Mall. In the future, I will show before and after photos, but for the time being, here is the…