I’ve become intrigued by the physical forms of neighborhoods where the dominant orientation of buildings face only one orientation. For example, in Tower Grove South, houses and apartments face north or south on east-west streets, even at the intersections with the north-south arteries. But…there are disobedient houses on those north-south arteries that choose to face…
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Posts about South St. Louis
Meramec Street Between Ohio Avenues and South Grand Boulevard, South Side, Dutchtown
I’ve looked at the north side of Meramec Street in Dutchtown extensively, in two groups of posts that start here and here, but I’ve never looked at the south side except here and there with individual buildings. Let’s start at South Broadway and work our way west. Thanks to Found St. Louis, I learned the…
Anheuser-Busch Eagle Appears in St. Louis
What do I spy? Why, it’s the Anheuser-Busch logo from the now-shuttered brewery in Newark, New Jersey. Remember, St. Louis brewers pioneered the opening of breweries in other cities; many companies believed that it was impossible to replicate the same taste of a beer as the home brewery elsewhere. Falstaff was the first to do…
South Ninth Street Between Emmet and Soulard Streets, Soulard
The next block between Emmett and today’s Soulard Street (Lafayette and Soulard would flip later in the Nineteenth Century) was already filled with houses. But interestingly, many of them have changed in form and style. The two churches are still standing; No. 2 was the German Presbyterian Church before it became Most Holy Trinity Slovak…
South Ninth Street Between Geyer Avenue and Emmet Street, Soulard
We’ll start off with Pictorial St. Louis right off the bat, as I believe the vast majority of the houses on this block were completed by the time it was published in 1876. The corner store is one building that appears, but at only two stories. I believe the store received an additional story at…
South Ninth Street Between Russell Boulevard and Geyer Avenue, Soulard
We cross over Russell Boulevard and notice something about this row of Second Empire houses on South Ninth Street. They do not have front doors–only mouse holes leading to the back of the houses, where there would have been exterior staircases allowing access to the upper stories of the building. This was normal and very…
South Ninth Street Between Lami Street and Russell Boulevard, Soulard
Crossing Lami Street and continuing north on South Ninth Street, we pass by a corner store with a turret that most likely once possessed a conical roof, now gone. While we see Second Empire houses, we begin to see earlier houses such as the Greek Revival or as it’s sometimes known, the Federalist Style. At…
South Ninth Street Between Victor and Lami Streets, Soulard
We cross over Victor and continue north. As can be seen below, there are some interesting things to discuss. First, there was settlement on the block to the west, but it was up a steep grade and there are several houses that are no longer present. Sometime later, probably in the 1880s and 1890s, there…
South Ninth Street Between Sidney and Victor Streets, Soulard
I’d looked at South Ninth Street in Soulard back in June of 2015, but I thought it would be worthwhile to take a deeper examination of the street. This first section between Sidney and Victor was once South 8th Street (logical because the next street over to the east is South 7th, after all), but…
Osceola Street Between South Spring Street and 37th Street
I then cruised down Osceola Street, where I saw something surprising: an abandoned house. It is a rarity in what is other a very healthy neighborhood. It’s also a neat little house. Much of the blocks on Osceola are the sides of houses since they primarily face the north-south street, but we have some nice…