Enright Avenue Between Hodiamont and Hamilton Avenues, West End

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, St. Louis, Missouri, December1909, sheet 066, University of Missouri.

Originally known as Von Versen but changed due to anti-German sentiment, we’ll now look at the last block of Enright between Hodiamont, basically the last street of the West End and Hamilton Avenue.

In the winter of 1887, Julius Pitzman was platting the Hamilton Place Addition. But as can be seen in the above fire insurance map, by 1909 development was still slow in coming along Enright Avenue, with large and small parcels still vacant.

Today, we can see that construction must have come in 1910s and 20s.

This photograph below captures the street in 1930, and the block seems built out.

Richard Lemen, View of Enright Street near Hodiamont Avenue and Delmar in the West End neighborhood. Buildings visible on the left side of the street are 5966, 5972, 6000, 6006, 6010, 6012, and 6016 Enright Avenue. The back of a billboard is visible at the Northwest corner of Enright and Hodiamont Avenues. A car with license plate 370056 is parked on the right side of Enright Avenue. In the background, a factory building at 640 Rosedale Avenue is visible., February 1, 1933, Lemen Streets and Sewers Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts, St. Louis Public Library, Lemen 1030.

Today, there has been very little demolition, thankfully.

An early wood frame house, which was surely one of the first homes built on the block, stands out compared to the other brick buildings.

There is a rare three family apartment building.

2 Comments Add yours

  1. Sean B. says:

    “Along-with-Their-BeIng-no-Vacent-Lots”
    ..”WithIn-this-SecTion-of”..”Saint-LouIs-Ci
    Ty’s-NorthWesTern-Parts”…” I-don’t-See-aNy-BoaRDeD-Up-HouSes-bEyONd-THo
    se-ExTErIOr-InTACt”..”APT-BLDGs”..,

  2. Sean B. says:

    🙂

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