Saint Trinity Cemetery on Lemay Ferry at Reavis Barracks Road is a place that I’ve driven by dozens of times, and this time I finally went in and explored. I’ve always thought the name is interesting, being Saint Trinity instead of Holy Trinity. There is no explanation why that is. The cemetery has a very…
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Posts about South St. Louis
Casa de Salud, Former Pinkley Motors
I figured there was more to the building at the southwest corner of Chouteau and South Compton avenues. From around 1950 to 1961, this was Pinkley Motors. I couldn’t find much information on the company, but the Bob and Tom Show had a skit on their radio show with the same name. Anyone know the…
Alaska Avenue, Dutchtown, Part Three
Further north, we approach the end of Alaska Avenue at Osceola Street. There are row after row of one story tract homes, each different in their brick color and pattern, but still basically the same house that are three bays wide and a metal cornice. The metal cornices were made in a workshop during the…
Alaska Avenue, Dutchtown, Part One
I decided to take a look at Alaska Avenue, a street in far south Dutchtown that is southwest of Virginia Avenue (former Stringtown Road), meaning that it does not make it north of Meramec Street. So it’s a state street, but even though it’s north-south, it’s much shorter than other state streets in the old…
Southeast Carondelet, Early September 2026, Part Two
I looked at this house back in July of 2018 and it is still occupied and in good condition. There are other interesting buildings nearby that are typical Carondelet houses: hipped roof, two bay wide homes, are common like the one above in addition to gable roof houses. Sometimes they are only one story high,…
Southeast Carondelet, Early September 2026, Part One
I was trying to get a better view of the Italgrani grain elevator but didn’t have very good luck, as can be seen above. I did have better luck checking in some of my favorite streets in Carondelet that I had last looked at back in May of 2022. What is particularly interesting is that…
End of Summer Odds and Ends
It’s a little late, but here are the odds and ends for the summer of 2026. Above, I snapped this photo of the wall of industry you spot as you pass under the Bellerive Bridge into Carondelet southbound on Broadway. Above is the vanished Twenty-First Street Bridge over the Mill Creek Valley. It is one…
Sixteenth Anniversary of St-Style
A hearty and much-deserved congratulations to my close friends Jeff and Randy Vines for the sixteenth anniversary of their shop Stl Style on Cherokee Street. While they’d been making their t-shirts for years before that, their dedication to a brick and mortar store in the city they love is something I’ve always respected about them….
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….
Dewey Street Between Meramec Street and Taft Avenue
Leaving behind South 37th Street, we move one over to the west and head down Dewey Street, which reveals some more interesting houses. While the first couple of buildings look standard to Dutchtown, now we are confronted with four-families with some very interesting little gables over the windows. There is a wide variety of brick…