Dance Hall, Theater, Beer Hall

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The Casa Loma Ballroom continues to be a landmark on Cherokee Street.

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The previous Casa Loma was destroyed by fire.

Francis Scheidegger, Fire at Casaloma Ballroom, Francis Scheidegger Collection, January 21, 1940, State Historical Society of Missouri, S0809-14.

While the Cinderella continues the replacement of its original terracotta.

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But an old Anheuser-Busch pub still sits in limbo, its owner holding out.

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  1. W. White says:

    It is good to see some rehab work being done in that area, both in the commercial and residential sections.

    Several blocks away at Wyoming and Texas is a very nice Second Empire corner store that is in basically original condition with no remodeling (but is abandoned). It needs a proper restoration done on it before it gets into too poor a condition to save some of the fragile architectural details. You have probably featured it on this site at some point, but if you have not, you should definitely get a few photographs of it.

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