The La Salle Institute is for sale, out to the west of Glencoe and north of Marycliffe, which we looked at yesterday. It is located where Old State Road cuts off to the northeast and Missouri Route 109 continues off to the northwest in Wildwood in far West County.
I’m showing you the west and east wings, because back sometime in the last twenty years, they demolished the main wing down to the foundations! I remember moving back to St. Louis and driving by and thinking, “Something’s weird about the way the La Salle Institute looks compared to the way it looked back when I was young…” It is a retreat for the Christian Brothers since 1886 and there are stunning views out into the valley below.
Heading over to another visit to Glencoe, which I last looked at back in May of 2012, we come across this completely out of context log cabin that was apparently near the small town.
I know some buildings are missing from my first visit. For example, the church that I photographed back in 2012 is almost certainly gone.
The old storefront, seen below and photographed back in 2012, is still here.
But much of the town was bought off and demolished due to flood mitigation.
Even with the tearing down of some of Old Glencoe’s remaining buildings due to a some “flood mitigation” half true excuses, the casual tearing up that section of Wildwood just shows how much attitude prejudices a “giant” (even by Alton and Springfield, Illinois standards) Saint Louis County has from top to bottom, even when allot of formerly Upper Middle Class and Middle Class lose their past luxuries financial status, they’ll still be talking trash about a long list of people that don’t think like them, not all homeschooling families are anti vaccine fanatics, not all Native American/First Nation descendants are born with Sitting Bull crayon orange melanin tones, the’re allot of “Suburban Journals galore” Asian high school graduates that would rather start their own businesses than work for the Hospital or non Hospital big service economy employers of Saint Louis County, Black Removalism is a thing beyond the forced busing of many African American students, and those more budget secure public school districts (Parkway, Rockwood, Kirkwood) should’ve implemented there own special school district programs during the early 1990s or so than blatantly mooch on too many of a Clayton Special School District Monolith’s resources at the expense of their more systematically broke “older neighbors” 🙁