Now we move to what I call Wedgwood South. I don’t think this is part of the original subdivision, but if someone knows the story, please let me know, Even the street changes width, as can be seen above. The hosues change in appearance dramatically. And we see the appearance of two story houses! I…
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Wedgwood East
Crossing over New Halls Ferry Road, we look at Wedgwood East. As can be seen at these photographs, the kitchens contains the latest in 1960s technology. They were also eat-in kitchens in addition to formal dining rooms. Most importantly to our journey around the eastern portions is the obvious appearance of new and different models…
Wedgwood West
I’ll divide Wedgwood into three parts; the first day today will feature Wedgwood West, named after the main street which extends west from New Halls Ferry Road. As can be seen, and in other cases with North County developments, Henry Mizuki was brought in to photograph the idealized interiors of model homes. To say these…
Wedgwood, North County
I don’t know how I found out about the giant North County subdivision of Wedgwood, but I did, and it’s a fascinating story. Located on either side of New Halls Ferry Road just north of Lindbergh Boulevard, it is surrounded by Florissant on the north, south and west sides but is still in unincorporated St….
What is a Ranch House?
At the same time I sneaked Cape Cod in as a new tag, I also slid Ranch House in to my list of architectural styles. The ranch house represented a revolution in the middle class house as it became prevalent after World War II in that it rotated the mass of the house from being…
Vinyl, Everywhere
I was giving a tour of Parkway South to Found St. Louis on Friday before the Homecoming football game and was startled to discover every horizontal surface has now been covered with vinyl tiles. What is up with that? Ever heard of texture? It didn’t used to be like that.
History of Cass Bank, Part Two
Now we come to the Cass Avenue Bank location that has been in the news, which was built in 1927, showing how quickly the institution had grown in twenty-one years. A severe, late Beaux-Arts building, it served as the headquarters of Cass Bank until 1974. This was near the Carr Square and Old North neighborhoods,…
Essen Log Cabin, Reborn
There’s some good news to report for a change, since it seems like it’s been a lot of bad news lately. A log cabin, that was literally stolen and thankfully recovered, has been rebuilt in the new Village Green Park in Wildwood a decade after its theft. The Essen Family were longtime settlers in West…
Old Potters’ Field Interment, Mount Lebanon Cemetery
Thirteen years ago, Toby Weiss of BeltSTL and I looked fruitlessly for the location of the reinterment of the St. Louis Potters’ Field, moved to Mount Lebanon Cemetery in 1950. This time, I came up with the ingenious idea of simply calling the cemetery on the phone, now owned by Alexander-White-Millen Funeral Home, and a…
End of Corpus Christi, Jennings
“That’s weird,” I remarked as we headed up Jennings Station Road to check up on the old factory on Xograph Avenue, “we should be seeing an old church I check up on occasionally.” After our visit to Xograph Avenue, we came back to the site of the former Corpus Christi Church, which I first visited…