Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Cloaked in darkness, the broad expanse of St. Louis Place north of Cass Avenue, demolished for a failed industrial park, takes on a certain aura in the glow of streetlights….
Month: December 2012
Looking Northeast, Gravois Avenue at Arsenal Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Update: I returned to this intersection in 2019.
Self-Portrait, Parking Meter, Grand Center
Huh, the new parking meters in Grand Center let you use a credit card to pay.
Newstead Avenue Through the Ville
Update: I have now extensively photographed the Ville and Greater Ville neighborhoods, but I still have much more to explore, and more people to meet. There have been some streetscape upgrades to Newstead Avenue. I came to the humbling, and constantly present, realization on Saturday that I’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the…
La Grange de Terre and Mound Market
Update: A new Big Mound monument was constructed as part of the new bridge. While searching in the Whipple fire insurance maps for the northern counterpart of the French Market on the Near South Side, I realized that the history of St. Louis’s Native American inhabitants and this northern market are intertwined. The Mound Market…
Shots of USS Inaugural
Update: I went back in February of 2013 and in October of 2021. Much ado has been made about how the forlorn wreck of the USS Inaugural, a minesweeper that survived World War II only to sink in the Mississippi in the Great Flood of 1993, is now easily viewable just south of the MacArthur…
Merry Christmas from Oliver and Whipple Fire Insurance Maps!
I’ve just discovered a huge cache of old fire insurance maps from 1876, capturing St. Louis only a decade after the Civil War. The Oliver and Whipple Maps, similar to the more famous Sanborn fire insurance maps, show the physical make-up of the city and a particular place and time, with additions of course. This…
Tillie’s Corner, and the Decline of the Near North Side
Update: I visited Tillie’s Corner in February of 2021 for St. Louis Magazine and met Carla and Miguel Alexander to learn about their efforts to save Dunbar Elementary. The high winds last week claimed several architectural victims across the city, including the three Second Empire rowhouses that made up Tillie’s Corner, at Sheridan and Garrison.?…
Clayton, 1975
Sorry that it’s a little blurry, but my Lord, look at all of the parking lots…