Moving along east of Ohio Avenue in the former St. Louis Commons on Armand Place, we see the continued unity of style consistent with being built in a relatively short period of time in the late 1880s and early 1890s as part of the Sarpy’s Partition of the DeVolsey Tract. I looked at this block back in November of 2017.

As I’ve mentioned before DeVolsey was a French colonial settler whose claim to the land was adjudicated by a special American panel who ruled that his property rights were valid.

One thing I always do when I look at streets is that I check Compton and Dry’s 1876 Pictorial St. Louis.

Interestingly, I came up with nothing: no farmhouses, sinkholes, winding paths or orchards that would explain why this land was developed so late.

But as is common for the area, the houses are your typical blend of houses that look the same stylistically but are subtly a mix of round arched and lintel windows.

But while they look like single family houses at first glance, they are all two family houses, with the exception of the one below that is a conversion.

After the higher density of a four-family right by South Jefferson Avenue, we hit a modern road blockage, which was a common attempt at fighting crime back in the late Twentieth Century.