Harney Avenue is named after William S. Harney, a St. Louisan who served in the military but who also had some loyalty issues during the Civil War, apparently.

It’s an interesting block, which again, makes me suspect that while this is the West Walnut Park Addition laid out by Julius Pitzman in 1906, makes me suspicious about some of the houses, such as the two wood frame houses below.

They must have been built almost immediately after the subdivision was created, as I typically only see these houses built in extremely rural areas, and earlier than 1906.

And abandonment is creeping in to the oldest houses.

But it’s also interesting that then there are houses from many decades later, showing just how slow development came to this area.