As is common, in early additions, there is usually at least one street with the same, so of course, since we’re in the Thomas Allen Western Addition, there’s Allen Street, which goes all the way into Soulard, where the wealthy land owner had considerable holdings (he, along with Julia Cerré Soulard created that neighborhood as it is today). And of course, he named another street after his wife, Ann.

I love this section of Fox Park, as the housing stock is old, and a little gritty still as the rest of the neighborhood is rehabbed so extensively.

It’s isolated, as well, with street closures to the east at South Jefferson, to the west at Nebraska, and to the north with Interstate 44; you can really only enter from the south.

I’ve looked at the area numerous times, particularly in November of 2016.

While there are old Italianate houses built shortly after the addition was platted, many of the rest of the housing stock were built in the 1890s.

Cornices, made of brick as opposed to planing mill-produced wood, have still been battered by the weather over the last century.