Update: A devastating tornado ended up striking the afternoon this post was published. The Jack in the Box is now a Mexican restaurant named Antonio’s. I really didn’t have much planned for the eighteenth anniversary of this website/blog/whatever you want to call it, but then I thought of the bombed out Jack in the Box…
Category: South
Posts about South St. Louis
Barley Cleaning House, Anheuser-Busch, Revisited
I looked at the Barley Cleaning House all the way back in June of 2015, almost a full decade ago, but I was traveling up Sidney Street, and it was looking great in the morning sun. Looking closer at the two turrets, it looks like the bricks have bee relaid, and there is even on…
Sidney Street Between Lemp Avenue and Salena Street, South Side, Revisited
I’ve looked at this stretch of Sidney Street in Benton Park almost exactly four years ago to the week, but the light was looking so right that I thought I’d revisit the houses and storefronts that make this streetscape one of the most interesting in the city. These first buildings above are sandwiched between Interstate…
McNair Avenue Between Lynch and Sidney Streets, West Side
Continuing north past Lynch Street, we look at the west side of McNair Avenue in Benton Park. We looked at the east side of the street back in November of 2019. These first few houses are interesting, in that they are perhaps more dense than what we see in what was originally the “suburban” Benton…
McNair Avenue Between Pestalozzi and Lynch Streets, West Side
I’ve briefly looked at this stretch of McNair Avenue in Benton Park before, but it was the east side of the street and only with a few photos. This time we’ll look at McNair north of Pestalozzi to Lynch Street on the west side, where there is a wealth of beautiful houses fitting for the…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Eight
While there are mostly multi-family apartment buildings in this area of Dutchtown, there are still many single family houses sprinkled in, as well. There is even this rare two story house, seen below. And there are plenty of Gingerbread houses in the neighborhood, too.
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Seven
As I’ve long said, duplexes in St. Louis are often concealed or hidden, made to look like they’re single family houses! And that’s no different in these houses from the World War II period in Dutchtown, where there is either a single gabled or hipped roof with the only way to tell it’s two units…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Six
We’ll now head into the 1930s and 40s, when the World War II era came to St. Louis (yes, I know that the United States entered World War II in 1941), and Modernism via Streamline Moderne became common in the city’s architecture. While we normally associate these styles of four-family flats with St. Louis Hills,…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Five
What is interesting, however, in this incredibly dense neighborhood of apartment buildings, is how there are a scattering of single family houses thrown in here and there in the part of Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard. Take, for example, these two bungalows above that I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else in the city,…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Four
Continuing on in our look at two family flats in Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard, we see more examples that have a front parapet wall. And if you look at the examples above, you can see more of those mass-produced glazed terracotta decorative elements that appear in the larger multi-unit buildings. But there are…