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…
Category: South
Posts about South St. Louis
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…
South 37th Street Between Bingham Avenue and Meramec Street
Not everything is nice and neat on South 37th Street, however. We were heading north on the street, and all of the sudden the houses go backwards in style by about a decade or so, with the bungalows more typical of Dutchtown to the east of South Grand Boulevard. Whoever built these cornices apparently didn’t…
South 37th Street Between Taft and Bigham Avenues
Back in mid-August, I discovered the peaceful and architecturally rich streets southwest of the intersection of South Grand Boulevard and Meramec Street (you can start looking at those posts here). I came back to explore some more, this time first looking at South 37th Street. Numbered streets west of Jefferson Avenue are a bit rare…
Gustine Avenue, Tower Grove South
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…
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…