They’re cleaning up the ruins of the John Loler House relatively quickly, though I was a little worried to see workers standing on the wood floors now loaded up with the debris of bricks and limestone as they stacked pallets. I had some leftover photographs from when I visited Dunbar Elementary this winter. I’ve always…
Month: June 2021
Union Boulevard, Walnut Park, Revisited
Starting at the corner of West Florissant Avenue and Union Boulevard, we discover the southwest corner once held a beautiful Italianate mansion, now long gone. I am curious about the inordinate number of children spilling out of the front porch. I’ve looked at Union Boulevard between West Florissant and I-70 before, back in July of…
Bartmer Avenue Between Union Boulevard and Belt Avenue, South Side
Bartmer Avenue, between Union Boulevard and Clara Avenue, is easily one of my favorite streets in St. Louis, but I’ve never photographed it all to do it justice (I’ve visited once in April of 2012 and then again in May of 2019). The light was good two Saturdays ago, and I snapped photos of the…
Samuel Cupples Elementary School
Similar story as many other abandoned North Side schools: the Samuel Cupples Elementary School was designed by revolutionary architect Rockwell M. Milligan in 1918, and it now sits empty. It’s a very simple design, and I like its reserved Tudor Revival style. I strongly suspect there was additional ornamentation on the two flanking wings on…
Ridge Avenue Between Academy Avenue and Union Boulevard, South Side and Vicinity
I took a right down Academy Avenue from MLK and spotted these two twins at the southwest corner of Wells Avenue. This is in that “fanned” shaped area of St. Louis bounded by MLK, Kingshighway, Page and Union. But the amazing architecture really started when I hung a right on to Ridge Avenue, and reminded…
Christ’s Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, Former Euclid Baptist Church
I was almost tricked into thinking this was a former Christian Scientist church, but its proximity to one on Page Boulevard clued me in that this was not the case. It was in fact built as the Euclid Baptist Church in 1920, and served as its home until 1962, when like so many other congregations,…
The Long Blocks Behind the Former DePaul Hospital
I’d spotted the long, very long blocks west of North Kingshighway near the old DePaul Hospital [whose post has mysteriously disappeared–can you find it for me? (Update: I went ahead and revisited it here)] and Most Blessed Sacrament, so Saturday morning I made it up there to take a look. Above, this house is on…
Around the Benton and Hoppe Graves, Bellefontaine Cemetery
Around the Hoppe and Benton graves there are some other very old and interesting family plots that I had never seen before, so I grabbed some quick photos. I also went around and photographed some of the parts of the cemetery that I frequently visit, as well. I never noticed that this family plot below…
Thomas Hart Benton Grave, Bellefontaine Cemetery
Everyone knows who Thomas Hart Benton is, right? He’s buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, and on a late morning visit I caught his monument and grave in the mottled sun and shade.
Hoppe Family Plot, Bellefontaine Cemetery
I’ve looked at the Feickert Family Plot before, which is right next to the Adam Lemp Family Plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery (they bought them both on the same day, years before their children William and Julia were married). Of course, William J. Lemp Sr. moved his in-laws, Jacob and Elizabeth to his mausoleum, so the…