Crossing over the interstate, we reach Lafayette Avenue, which is the 1854 James Eads Addition on the south side of the street, which we see in the photographs below.

The pink building above was original an Ice and Fuel building.

There has been extensive renovation and redevelopment on Lafayette Avenue in what I call Compton Hill, its historic name.

As before with Geyer Avenue, the construction of Interstate 44 wiped out much of the context of the neighborhood; interestingly, there used to be one block of Texas Avenue from Geyer north to the backyards of the row houses seen in the far right in Compton and Dry’s 1876 Pictorial St. Louis below.

Those Second Empire rowhouses still stand, renovated and in great condition.