Heading east down Lynch Street, we skirt the southern edge of the slender Barsaloux Addition, platted in 1866 after having originally been surveyed in 1858. It’s another one of those French farm fields that came up from the river; you can see the addition surveyed on the left in the plat above. Lynch is an…
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Posts about South St. Louis
Indiana Avenue Between Lynch and Pestalozzi, West Side
Turning around at Pestalozzi and heading north, we see that originally the west side of Indiana Avenue was fully built up like the east side, if not as densely. It’s also interesting to see that already in 1876, towards the north end of the block, a substantial portion of a hill had to be cut…
Indiana Avenue Between Lynch and Pestalozzi, East Side
A reader recommended I look at the 2800 block of Indiana Avenue in Benton Park, which is in between Pestalozzi Avenue and Lynch Street. I’ve looked at the block of Indiana just to the north back in December of 2022, as well as a section to the south back in June of 2015. I’ve also…
Completion at South Compton and Arsenal?
I guess they’re done repairing the corner of the building that was hit back in July of 2021? It survived the initial impact, as I showed in August of the same year, and then languished for a long time before reconstruction began in earnest earlier this year. I like how they imitated the crappy mortar…
Morgan Ford South of Gravois, Bevo
Jumping around a bit, we’re back to the intersection of Morgan Ford and Gravois, and we’ll head south, starting at this replica of a famous landmark in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina. We looked at the intersection before, and saw there was once a row of buildings at the corner that is now a parking lot…
Gravois Avenue Between Taft and Beethoven Avenues
We’re almost to the end of the portion of Gravois in Bevo, as we approach the viaduct that takes the railroad over the street. Interestingly, there are a large amount of old wood frame houses surviving, often concealed by later brick storefronts built out to the sidewalk line. I like the very strange almost saltbox-like…
Gravois Avenue from Ellenwood to Taft Avenues, Bevo
We’ll take one last look at the building on the southwest corner, and then continue on northeast up Gravois Avenue. We’ve actually looked at this building before because it was once attached to a movie theater to the right, back in October of 2020. The newer mid-Twentieth Century buildings such as the one below replaced…
Gravois Avenue from Neosho Street to Ellenwood Avenue, Bevo
But just as we pass by the open spaces left by the demolition for parking lots, we discover that historic buildings intact for the next block. Terracotta companies mass produced designs that are seen all over the city. So while individual buildings are unique, they can often have the same “flavor” as others throughout the…
Gravois Avenue from Morgan Ford Road to Neosho Street, Bevo
Moving past the intersection of Morgan Ford and Delor, we hit a stretch of Gravois that is substantially marred by demolition for parking lots, While the Bevo Mill carefully follows the contours of the wedge-shaped block where it sits, ironically there is a giant parking lot behind it that once served the popular restaurant. Across…
Gravois Avenue Between Duke Street and Morgan Ford Road, Bevo
Let’s pass by Duke Street, which I have to admit I’d never heard of before because there are so many short one or two block long streets in this part of Bevo that branch off Gravois Avenue. I think it is probably due to the relatively rugged terrain of the old Christy Estate. But as…