Crossing Holly Hills Avenue, we near the end of our trip up Alabama Avenue in Carondelet, as the interstate will stop us from proceeding further. There continues to be a mix of styles, showing the slow development of the neighborhood. This is the last house, at Iron Street, where the interstate cuts through and ends…
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Alabama Avenue Between Haven Street and Holly Hills Avenue
Houses rapidly become much more ornate north of Haven Street. Houses are more typical of what you might see in Dutchtown or Gravois Park. It seems the flippers have arrived. There are more corner stores, as well, which were not common south of Loughborough Avenue. Perhaps what is the best way to describe the street…
Alabama Avenue Between Loughborough Avenue and Haven Street
Just like one block over on Vermont Avenue, like yesterday, the houses are older and brick on Alabama Avenue, and they’re quite nice. Even the houses look similar, such as the one below. This was clearly the more different part of Carondelet. There are still many working class houses. But brick predominates. Note the house…
Alabama Avenue Between Blow Street and Loughborough Avenue
This is where it gets interesting, as there is a group of Gingerbread and Tudor Revival houses, similar to what we saw one block over on Vermont Avenue. I suspect there was a large tract of undeveloped land that came open in the 1920s. We then make it to Loughborough Avenue.
Alabama Avenue Between Robert Avenue and Blow Street
We turn the corner to continue up Alabama Avenue. We continue to see many fascinating wood frame buildings, which are so common in Carondelet and what I like so much about this neighborhood: the survivors. These in particular are perhaps the oldest on the block, and were built before street grading occurred with the annexation…
Alabama Avenue Between Primm Street and Robert Avenue
I realized that I have looked at all of the main north-south streets in Carondelet with the exception of Alabama Avenue, so I went down to the southernmost block and proceeded north. The first part, leaving behind Primm Street, has light industrial with a series of warehouses and other buildings. Then there is some in-fill,…
Geyer Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
Moving east of Ohio Avenue, Geyer Avenue shows the detrimental effects of the interstate and its offramp to South Jefferson. There is a small house off by itself, which breaks the street wall. Otherwise, there are two story houses up close to the sidewalk. But there are also very old Italianate houses, probably from the…
Geyer Avenue Between California and Ohio Avenues
Heading one block to the north to Geyer Avenue, it would be remiss to not talk about how Interstate 44, the Ozark Expressway, has altered the street forever. As I demonstrated above with the blue shaded area on the Compton and Dry Pictorial St. Louis from 1876, all of that land is now under the…
Allen Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
Heading east of Ohio Avenue on Allen Avenue towards South Jefferson Avenue, there is a wide variety of houses, some older but many on the newer side relatively. This section of street seems to have developed slower. And the houses that are here look to be from the 1890s and 1900s. The house on the…
Allen Avenue Between California and Ohio Avenues
As is common, in early additions, there is usually at least one street with the same, so of course, since we’re in the Thomas Allen Western Addition, there’s Allen Street, which goes all the way into Soulard, where the wealthy land owner had considerable holdings (he, along with Julia Cerré Soulard created that neighborhood as…