After looking at the fascinating surviving urban fabric of Hickory Street and others in the Compton Hill neighborhood that survived urban renewal, I wondered if there were any similar streets across South Jefferson Avenue that weren’t mansions in Lafayette Square.
And lo and behold, Hickory Street bears a similar working class character as the streets west of Jefferson. Just look at Pictorial St. Louis.
In fact, it looks like many of the houses in my photographs were already built by 1875 when the surveys for Pictorial St. Louis were undertaken.
They’re simple houses but look good and were rehabbed well.
As many of the streets along Jefferson in Lafayette Square, there is a cul-de-sac at the western end.
Hickory St. , west of Park Av. was developed as a more affordable working class set of 3-story single family homes . It also was beside the great wall of Benton Place terminus which once had an access staircase down to Hickory for the end house of the Ludlow family which had the large factory across the street . All walked and rode the cable and streetcars together as a matter of course . Cosmopolitan lives .