I’ve looked at this block before, back in October of 2019, but only cursorily. I decided to come back and look at this fascinating section of Dutchtown, where its history, beginning as farm and pastureland in the St. Louis Commons stretches back to the 1840s. I think there are traces of that early history lasting…
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The Beauty of Dutchtown, 94: Meramec Street Between California and Ohio Avenues, North Side, Revisited
Passing by Meramec School we again look at Meramec Street between California and Ohio avenues which we visited back in October of 2019. One the far side of the school we cross Iowa Avenue and there are several in-fill houses, but then are a couple of my favorite little one story houses, seen below, and…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 93: Meramec Street Between Oregon and California Avenues, North Side
The next block is new, heading east on Meramec Street east of Oregon Avenue. We’re first confronted with a desecration of the street wall in this convenience store, which was originally a national chain, but as so often happens, has devolved into a one-off. Following that, there are more storefronts, the one on the left…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 92: Meramec Street Between Nebraska and Oregon Avenues, North Side
Picking up east of Nebraska Avenue, we see the former Kern’s Market, which is now Upon This ROCK Holiness Church. Then comes a row of four-family flats, all obviously built at the same time and by the same builder. But as is typical of the early Twentieth Century, and something developers today could learn, that…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 91: Meramec Street Between Michigan and Nebraska Avenues, North Side, Revisited
The next three blocks have been looked at in the past; I looked at the block between Michigan and Minnesota in October of 2021, Minnesota and Pennsylvania at the same time, and Pennsylvania and Nebraska shortly thereafter. I photographed the corner store above back in October of 2008 (last photo). The first block varies from…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 90: Meramec Street Between South Compton and Michigan Avenues, North Side, Revisited
Passing South Compton, we look at a block I’ve examined twice before, one time just back in October of 2021, and then the other time way back in October of 2008 (first two photos). Way back in 2009 I visited the St. Anthony of Padua fish fry in the former commercial building above. I do…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 89: Meramec Street Between Louisiana and South Compton Avenues, North Side
Passing by Louisiana Avenue, we see the evidence of many streets that started out residential or rural, and then began to acquire a commercial character after the arrival of streetcars. For example, as you can see above and below, there is a corner storefront but then right next door is a house with the typical…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 88: Meramec Street Between Grand Boulevard and Louisiana Avenue, North Side
We left off on the last Beauty of Dutchtown Series with No. 86. On a whim during one of the fog events on an early Saturday I photographed the entirety of the north side of Meramec Street, the main east-west artery in Dutchtown. I’ve photographed some sections before, but it is worthwhile to check in…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 88: 3714 Dunnica Avenue
The appearance of this four-family flat has changed little since Isaac Sievers photographed it as part of his work documenting the raft of new apartment buildings going up in Dutchtown, not long after its construction in 1934. This one is obviously different from the large ones that I’ve been showing the last week or so,…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 87: Southeast Corner of Alexander Street and Dunnica Avenue
Constructed in 1930, the apartment building at the southeast corner of Dunnica Avenue and Alexander Street warranted Isaac Siever’s attention when he photographed it on May 4, 1931. Sadly, when I came by to photograph almost a century later, the northern half of the building is not boarded up and abandoned. But there is so…