Enright Avenue Between Porter Mall and Clara Avenue, West End

I somehow forgot to go down Enright Avenue west of Ruth Porter Mall, but here is the street east of there. It is perhaps a portent of what the West End would have become if the City had not lost out to the suburbs: increasingly dense with apartments replacing single family homes built earlier in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries.

They are being renovated, and I wish they would cut down those two trees above so we could actually see the facade of what is probably a beautiful building.

Streetcar lines also increased the desirability of middle class inhabitants in the area.

Also, at the southeast corner with Clara, there was this massive apartment building known as the Rappahannock. It has been demolished.

W.C. Persons, Rappahannock Apartments. Clara and Enright, 1928, Missouri History Museum, N29880.

As mentioned above, the apartment buildings actually replaced single family houses, which were built at some point before 1909.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, t. Louis, Missouri, 1909 December, sheet 067, University of Missouri.

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