We pick up our Beauty of Dutchtown series where we left off with Part 11, now on Keokuk Street, northwest of Marquette Park. The brick masons used different colors of brick to make little designs, and created cornices and other details with their trowels, which would have been made of wood in previous decades of…
Month: November 2019
Chippewa Street Between Compton and Tennessee Avenues, Dutchtown
We now jump to the south side of Chippewa Street, and we are magically in Dutchtown! The house above is somewhat famous for the huge weeds that sometimes swallow it in the summer. Now that Fall of 2019 has arrived, the overgrowth has tamped down a bit. Again, I do want to stress that it…
Chippewa Street Between Arkansas and Tennessee Avenues, Gravois Park
Just west of Arkansas, prosperity ironically led to the annihilation of the historic buildings due to the need for parking lots for a bank. To the southwest, of course, was the old St. Anthony’s Hospital, which then went through different iterations of grocery stores. To the east are a wealth of beautiful houses, often built…
Chippewa Street Between Tennessee and Virginia Avenues, Gravois Park
Between Tennessee and Virginia avenues, Chippewa Street is almost entirely residential, and the buildings are a mixture of different revival styles from around the year 1900. They are in great shape, for the most part. So much for those balconies, which must have been removed long ago. Look at that corner store building below. There…
Chippewa Street from Virginia to Oregon Avenues, Gravois Park
Update: See more of the street with historic photos from late summer of 2020. Hold on to your seats, because I need to do some explaining. In between Jefferson Avenue and Grand Boulevard, Chippewa Street bisects two neighborhoods, Gravois Park to the north, and Dutchtown to the south. As I think I’ve pointed out in…
Chippewa Street, Marine Villa
Chippewa Street is such a major artery in St. Louis Hills, that we often forget it continues on east of Jefferson Avenue into Marine Villa, where it is a quiet residential street. But it does not fail to surprise with beautiful houses, such as this Second Empire central-hall home above, which is also carefully fit…
Kosciusko Avenue Between Cahokia and Winnebago Streets, Marine Villa
Update: See the interior of the house in 1960 here in historic photos. It is not surprising that many of the Greek Revival houses, perhaps owned by employees of the nearby Marine Hospital, possessed balconies that looked out over the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the banks below. Later Second Empire houses also filled in…
Recalled to Life, Compton Avenue in Gravois Park
Update: See the house again in the summer of 2021. Writing back in May of 2017 of this house, on the west side of Compton just north of Chippewa in the Gravois Park neighborhood, I stated, “Hopefully one day it will be renovated.” My wishes came true. I am not totally thrilled of the paint…
Virginia Avenue Between Chippewa and Miami Streets, Gravois Park
Gravois Park is such a beautiful neighborhood, and I feel bad that it is often times in the news and in the conversations of South City residents for the wrong reasons. Further afield, it is a community known to few people, despite being an almost completely intact built environment with few demolished houses or vacant…
St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church
Dating from 1909, St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church was completed in 1929. There seems to have been some work on the dome in the years since I first photographed the building through an alley across Gravois. The church, like many in St. Louis, draws people from around the region.