I thought I would check up on the house at Fout Place and see how–oh wait, what am I talking about? Of course it’s doing terrible, just like the last six times I visited! I’ll have to admit recently I’ve gotten really burned out taking photos of abandoned, burned out and collapsing buildings. As I…
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Posts about North St. Louis
Lee Avenue Between North Newstead and Warne Avenues
I don’t know what it is, but as soon as you cross over North Newstead Avenue into the Fairgrounds neighborhood, the trail drops out from underneath you. The housing stock is older, and that definitely plays a part. But what can I say when I cover a mile and 90% of all I see are…
Lee Avenue Between Marcus and North Newstead Avenues
Things continue to look great crossing over Marcus Avenue as we remain in the Penrose neighborhood heading east on Lee Avenue. A first appears, which is multi-family housing, as seen above. But then some really fascinating and unique Gingerbread houses reappear, and they show designs that I haven’t seen anywhere in the city. There’s even…
Lee Avenue Between North Kingshighway and Marcus Avenue
I had some time to kill, so I decided to explore the entire length of Lee Avenue from North Kingshighway to North Grand Boulevard. While there’s technically four blocks east of Grand, there are not any houses facing the street. At Kingshighway, Lee technically turns to Brown Avenue and enters the Mark Twain Industrial Park….
Updates on the Northeast Side
There has been a major collapse of the service wing of the former Jewish Orthodox Old Home. I have been tracking its deterioration, and the last time I photographed this portion of the building, in January of 2021 (second photo), it was already looking unstable. I wonder if the repeated lashing of severe weather recently…
JeffVanderLou, Mid Summer 2023
I went around JeffVanderLou a little bit more after turning off Evans Avenue. I spotted this interesting church, which is pretty much in a storefront. Gotta love Formstone, which transformed the city of Baltimore, where I once lived. I even have a little on the base of my front porch. Thank God it never took…
Evans Avenue Between Vandeventer and East Prairie Avenues
I know I’ve photographed these apartment buildings before, but for the life of me I can’t find that post now. But what is there to say? It’s totally depressing. Almost everything on this street is abandoned and deteriorating, and there is nothing being done about it. This one building below looks to be the only…
Evans Avenue Between Whittier Street and Vandeventer Avenue
I drove down Evans Avenue a little ways just west of Vandeventer Avenue. In case you didn’t know, there is a program that is couple of years old now called “Mow to Own,” where if you maintain a vacant lot owned by the Land Reutilization Authority, you can acquire title to it after a set…
JeffVanderLou and St. Louis Place, Early Summer 2023
Heading east of St. Louis Avenue, I looked at the north side of that thoroughfare, having looked at the south of the street in two parts, here and here back in July of 2022. There is still a large part of JeffVanderLou west of North Grand Boulevard, even if most of the huge neighborhood is…
The Greater Ville, Early Summer 2023
I also wanted to check up on the Greater Ville, primarily heading east down Ashland Avenue, the major east-west street two blocks south of Natural Bridge Avenue. The photos above and below are from the 4500 block of Ashland, which I looked at way back in January of 2019. The houses below are in the…