Moving along east of Ohio Avenue in the former St. Louis Commons on Armand Place, we see the continued unity of style consistent with being built in a relatively short period of time in the late 1880s and early 1890s as part of the Sarpy’s Partition of the DeVolsey Tract. I looked at this block…
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Armand Place Between California and Ohio Avenues
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be looking at the east-west streets in Fox Park and Compton Hill in between California and South Jefferson Avenues. We’ll start in the south with Armand Place and work our way north, ending with Hickory Avenue in the north. This first block is the Sarpy’s Subdivision…
Buyer Beware: Painted Brick
I know from talking to many people that there is great frustration in the rash of out of town flippers, particularly from California, who have come in, flipped houses, gutting perfectly intact interiors with original woodwork and replaced it with cheap materials, and then for the final insult, slathered the beautiful red brick exterior with…
Neosho Street Between Brannon Avenue and Kingshighway, Part Two
As is typical of all the east-west streets west of Kingshigway, as Neosho gets closer to the major north-south artery, the houses get larger and two story. But they are still single family. This is an interesting development, because as one travels north, multi-family housing begins to predominate as the housing stock gets closer to…
Neosho Street Between Brannon Avenue and Kingshighway, Part One
Heading east from the southern end of Brannon Avenue, we see a rarity on this street, which is a four-family that is more typical of neighborhoods to the east. But then we reach the northern end of the dogleg of Brannon, and the houses turn back to what is typical along this stretch of Neosho….
Neosho Street Between Macklind and Brannon Avenues
Passing by Macklind Avenue, we continue to see Arts and Crafts bungalows and two-families, which we would expect in the 1910s and 20s in St. Louis. There is this curious house style above, which also appears elsewhere on this street, with a simple shed roof covered in red clay tile. But then the houses go…
Neosho Street Between January and Macklind Avenues
We continue to the east past January Avenue and the diagonal Wherry Street on Neosho Street, and for awhile we still see Gingerbread style houses. But then something changes, and it’s very obvious, even in the color of the brick and other building materials. We have now gone back at least one or two decades,…
Neosho Street Between Hampton and January Avenues, Part Two
Continuing down the block, we see more of the Gingerbread houses that were typical of the western portion. We reach January Avenue at this point, which like the other north-south streets, is two-way in both directions and does not yield to the east-west one-way streets.
Neosho Street Between Hampton and January Avenues, Part One
We’ll look at Neosho Street over the next several days, starting in the west at Hampton Avenue and going east and back in time, so to speak. Of course, first we seen rows and rows of Gingergbread style houses, which is what we sort of describe as Neo-Gothic Revival architecture, and is very special and…
South Seventh Boulevard Between Shenandoah and Geyer Avenues
Crossing Shenandoah Avenue and heading north, we see this house standing by itself. It’s obvious that the front facade has been relaid, and judging from the tagging, it’s been sitting like this for a while. But moving north, we see tow examples of houses where there has been successful relaying of brick and occupancy. These…