The Horton Place Addition was platted in 1887; city records do not preserve the name of the surveyor, though Julius Pitzman was active in the area at the time period. Sanborn maps split the one block (but very long) street into two maps. Above is the west end, and below is the east end.

It is important to realize that the vast majority of the almost certainly stately homes shown in the maps above are now gone. But some nice houses remain, seen below.

As is common throughout the city, subdivisions might very well be platted long before major development actually occurred. Streetcars such as the Hodiamont line, whose right-of-way still exists a couple of blocks to the south, allowed for a relatively quick trip downtown, encouraged houses to be built in what was a suburban part of the city.

What I did find interesting were these relatively small houses in what was normally a well-to-do part of town.

There are only one or two vacant lots on Horton Place, as the demolished houses have almost been completely replaced by in-fill, which look to be have been built in the last twenty years or so.

While we normally associate the St. Louis Public Schools with declining enrollment nowadays, it was still building new schools into the 1960s, as this building below attests.