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…
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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…
South Seventh Boulevard Between Barton Street and Shenandoah Avenue, West Side
I looked at a segment of the west side of South Seventh Boulevard (remember, the east side was annihilated for the widening of the major traffic artery back in the mid Twentieth Century) in November of 2025, so I thought I would photograph more of the surviving and reconstructed urban fabric to the south, heading…
Hope Lutheran Church
Originally opening as Hope Evangelical Lutheran in 1916, here we have an interesting example of a church in the Italian Romanesque Revival style on the outside. You’ve got your typical hallmarks: small windows, a stout massing and a campanile with a red tile roof. And inside, rotund columns with Roman arches creating arcades separating the…
Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Revisited
We’ve looked at the exterior of Our Redeemer before, back in October of 2020 when we were walking around Benton Park West. But there’s a beautiful carved wood chancel in the apse of the church, complete with a sculpture in the round of Christ. It’s quite beautiful.
Epiphany Lutheran Church
I’ve become intrigued recently with the sculpting and shaping of wood in churches in St. Louis. Marble is always beautiful, and is the inheritance of the Greeks and Romans, who, living around the Mediterranean and its more volcanically active geologic topology, had access to metamorphic stone. But in the transalpine regions of Europe in places…
Sidewalk Medallions
I spotted some of these old sidewalk medallions in Tower Grove East. The one above is interesting in that it has the address of where it was laid. You can read about granitoid sidewalks here. Below, we even have the date of the construction, which is 1909.