Update: St. Bridget of Erin was not the first Irish Roman Catholic parish torn down in St. Louis. St. Columbkille was demolished in the 1950s.
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Sts. Teresa and Bridget Roman Catholic Church
St. Teresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church dates back to the population explosion and development of the Yeatman estate after the Civil War in 1866. The present church dates from 1900, and as usual, defies the normal classification of architectural styles. The church, particularly the façade, reminds me of the Roman Baroque, but there are…
St. James the Greater Roman Catholic Church
Sitting on a dramatic hill on some of the highest ground in Dogtown, St. James the Greater is the Irish parish of St. Louis. Many other churches have held that title over the centuries: St. Patrick, St. Bridget of Erin, St. Leo, St. Lawrence O’Toole, St. Columbkille–but now we are left with St. James the…
St. Columbkille Roman Catholic Church
This row of houses hides the location of the former Roman Catholic church of St. Columbkille’s one of the three most important patron saints of Ireland along with St. Bridget of Erin and St. Patrick. It was demolished back in the 1950s and after the parish closed in 1952. The cornerstone was laid on June…
Pruitt-Igoe
Update: All of the trees and underbrush were cleared from the Pruitt-Igoe site by Northside in 2017 for a supposed three-bed hospital that was never built. Many St. Louisans don’t realize that one of the most infamous housing projects in the country, Pruitt-Igoe, lies just to the northwest of downtown St. Louis in what was…
The Near North Side West of Jefferson
North of Delmar, west of Jefferson is a very important part of St. Louis’s architectural history. Update: Unfortunately, most of the houses above have now collapsed. Why? Because it represents an era of St. Louis history that was almost entirely demolished in the first half of the Twentieth Century, first by the commercialization of the…