South of downtown Clayton and Country Club Place is Davis Place, laid out in a series of curving streets as well as continuing many of the north-south streets of the central core, though they are cut off by Forest Park Parkway, the former Rock Island Railroad tracks.

Heavily developed and marketed in the mid-1920s by the Davis Realty Company, Davis Place was decidedly modern, with original concrete streets and access to multiple streetcar lines, though all houses came equipped with garages in back reached via driveways from the front.

And more intriguingly, hidden among the single family houses are around 22 duplexes, which are hard to spot because they are camouflaged so well. Look for houses that have two driveways and two front doors, though one might be tucked around to the side.

Scruggs, Vandervoort and Barney, the famous department store, even had their own model home in the development.

To ferry potential residents to the development, there was a bus that picked up passengers in downtown Clayton that would bring them the four blocks to Davis Place.

Lots sold from between $60 to $80 a square foot, and houses ranged from $20,000 to $80,000. Duplexes were intended for an owner to live in one half and rent out the other, and were marketed towards businessmen who would commute to downtown St. Louis.

Soft coal was banned from being burned, which is also something I saw in the restrictive covenants of Westmoreland Place.