I might have mentioned this before, but if you ever wonder why there are a bunch of houses that are in way better shape and a couple of decades older in the blocks to the northeast of the intersection of North Grand Boulevard and St. Louis Avenue, I can explain.

In 1893, Julius Pitzman was asked to survey the Lindell Park Subdivision, a series of rectangular blocks that ran east to west.

But if you look at Compton and Dry, you realize there was an earlier subdivision that ran north-south.

So developers came in, bought up all the houses already built, demolished them, and platted a whole new subdivision on top of the old addition.