Heading one block to the north to Geyer Avenue, it would be remiss to not talk about how Interstate 44, the Ozark Expressway, has altered the street forever.

As I demonstrated above with the blue shaded area on the Compton and Dry Pictorial St. Louis from 1876, all of that land is now under the interstate right-of-way.

But there are some beautiful and extremely old Italianate houses left that surely date to the late 1870s soon after Pictorial St. Louis was published.

I believe the two half flounder houses below do appear on Pictorial St. Louis; you can them all by themselves on the upper left corner of the page without even a street in front of them yet.

In fact, much of this block is a showcase of Italianate houses, such as these beauties below; the one on the left has a wonderful preserved cornice.

Right before the corner with Ohio Avenue, there is a four family from what looks to be the 1890s.