Marine Villa technically goes all the way to Cherokee, but the bulk of it sits right up against I-55 southeast of Broadway. The housing stock is interesting, and similar to nearby Benton Park. There is some in-fill, as these 1950’s apartments attest. Up ahead you can see a house that was featured on Bad Mansard,…
Month: February 2011
French Market
Update: I revisited the area in late summer of 2020. Tucked away, right in the middle of the jumble of streets that head into Downtown, is a one block stretch of street, an alley really, named French Market Court. French Market? Only five or six blocks north of the more famous Soulard Market, the South…
Ohio Avenue Between Miami and Winnebago Streets, Gravois Park
Update: This post and its title was updated in February 2020 to reflect its location in the Gravois Park neighborhood, and its correct street. I went back in March of 2016 and December of 2021. These beautiful houses face the back up to the old Concordia Theological Seminary in Gravois Park. Perhaps a professor lived…
Virginia Avenue, Dutchtown
Update: I’ve gone back and photographed the exterior of the Virginia Theater from the same week of 2011, from later in 2011, and the interior in 2014 though finally published in 2019. Also, the other restaurants that Anheuser-Busch built, the Bevo Mill, can be seen in this post from July of 2013, and the Feasting…
More Carondelet
Update: See more of the buildings below in a post from February of 2023. I made it back down to Carondelet and explored some more. Update: I revisited the section of South Broadway below in the winter of 2021. This time, I went down to Broadway, which has a plethora of historic buildings, many of…
Carr School Roof Further Collapse
I’m not sure, but the roof of the Carr School, just north of downtown, seems to have deteriorated even more severely since the last time I saw the building.
Virginia Theater
Update: You can see the Virginia Theater from earlier in the week, and later in 2013. See the theater’s interior from 2014 that were published in 2019. I had always heard about this theater, but had never been by. In fact, Virginia Avenue is really amazing along this stretch, featuring some great architecture. Originally built…
Just One Block in Downtown
Looking out at the forlorn parking lot on the corner of 14th and Lucas Avenue in downtown, my thoughts began to wander to what once occupied the block bounded by Washington, 15th, Lucas and 14th. Looking at the Sanborn maps, it appears that the block once held an abundance of houses, a church and school,…
Lost Quarries of the South Side
Update: See houses that may have been quarry workers’ house here and here. I revisited the quarry site, and found more of what may have been buildings related to the quarry, in the summer of 2020. In January of 2025, I wrote about more of the history of this site, which was the Eyerman Quarry….