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, in reality there was still plenty of open land in Dutchtown left and we see many of these buildings.

I love these buildings; sometimes there’s four front doors, arranged very interestingly like above, or there’s a single front door, or there’s just a row of front doors.

And we also see multi-family one-story buildings like the ones all over the city, but I can’t help but imagine that individual units are really small…