Heading yet another block north, we now head down Ann Avenue from California to Ohio Avenue in the east-west blocks of northeastern Fox Park.

We see something new for the first time in this examination: single family houses like one might see Tower Grove Heights over on the long blocks around the intersection of South Grand Boulevard and Arsenal Street.

But there are still plenty of four-family apartments and other multi-families.

And also something that is becoming surprising in Fox Park: abandoned buildings.

With the way the housing market is in the neighborhood, it’s frankly surprising that the owners had not taken advantage of the low interest rates in the previous years.

By the way, Ann Avenue comes from Ann Russell Allen, whose husband Thomas owned large tracts of land in the area.

This house below is interesting, in that it is one of my long line of houses in St. Louis that clearly is the massing and appearance of a single family house, but was built as a two family. I have long joked that builders in St. Louis specialized in these “covert” multi-family dwellings.

We now reach Ohio Avenue after this stately four family.