I ended up on Penrose Street in Hyde Park recently east of Blair Avenue, which is blocked off with Schoemehl Pots. On the east, Interstate 70 cuts the street off from North Broadway, with which it had long been connected. Some houses are abandoned, like the one above, but others are in great condition and…
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Around Blair Avenue, Hyde Park
If you wondered what that giant forty foot deep hole looked like before it was almost completely filled in, this is what it looked like a couple of weeks ago. MSD was working to get the sewer line fixed. Interestingly, it broke in the same place one hundred years ago. I suspect, looking at old…
Blair Avenue Between Newhouse and Angelica Streets, West Side
Speaking of anomalies, and I always tell people to watch out for this, if you ever seen a cluster of newer houses in a neighborhood of much older housing stock in a part of the city that was platted out early, you need to be curious. In this instance, we are looking at the west…
Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, Sullivan Avenue Between Blair Avenue and North Fourteenth Street
I’ve apparently never photographed this section of Sullivan Avenue between Blair Avenue and North Fourteenth Street. There’s a wide variety of architectural styles, and for the most part, while there are some vacant lots allowing long views to the backs of other buildings, the street wall is intact. But the Second Empire architecture is really…
North Up Blair Avenue, Spring 2021
Every year or so, I do a “North up Blair Avenue” post, and see the state of the neighborhoods slashed on their eastern side by Interstate 70. You can see the 2018 and 2019 posts from previous years. I did it again last Saturday, and things are looking good, but also some things are staying…
North Up Blair Avenue, Again
Update: I went back up this way again in late summer of 2019. Last fall, I did a post entitled “North Up Blair Avenue,” which looked at a cross section of the neighborhoods that were affected by the construction of Interstate 70, but that also show signs of rebounding. Beginning above, a house long admired…
South Down Blair Avenue, Afternoon, Early February 2019
The undergrowth has been cleared from around the old Jewish Orthodox Old Home, and it looks like it has been secured to keep people out. It is still owned by a non-profit in Florida, though it owes considerable back property taxes. Moving further south down Blair Avenue, there is such an interesting mix of wood…
North Up Blair Avenue, Fall 2018
Update: I retraced my path in early and late summer of 2019. Many of the buildings seen below have now been demolished and are now vacant lots. The house featured in the pictures above and below was demolished in 2019. Blair Avenue gives you a great cross section of the neighborhoods just to the west…
Hyde Park in the Morning Light #44, Blair Avenue from Angelrodt to Destrehan
Blair Avenue is one of the main north-south routes through Hyde Park, and there are some interesting houses along it, such as the one below. It is a flounder of some sort, with what appears to be the original wood frame house behind it. This Second Empire home has a lot of Christmas decorations on…
Hyde Park in the Morning Light #24, One House on Blair Avenue
The house on the left has been suffering for a very long time, and it probably seems even longer for the owners of the building next door. Sadly, it’s a good illustration how houses fall apart over the passage of time. First the hard, high-temperature bricks go on the exterior and then softer bricks are…