Allen Avenue Between Mississippi Avenue and 18th Street

Continuing east on Allen Avenue, there is more variety, as four-family flats intrude in between the two-family flats. They have a dark almost burnt umber color on their front facades, showing the early Twentieth Century turn away from all red brick.

There are some incredibly well-renovated houses on this block in many different architectural styles.

At this point, the street ends, swallowed up by the interstate, which destroyed so much of the city, leaving behind nothing but a wasteland.

© Dorrill Studio, March 1966, Construction of the Interchange of Interstates 44 and 55, Allen Avenue and South Eighteenth Street., Missouri History Museum, P0243-12609-03-4a

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