In between the big houses and mansions of the elite of Soulard on 12th and 13th streets, the less wealthy lived in more “normal” residential architecture.
This is normal; throughout major American cities classes were rigidly stratified on different types of streets. Ironically, before the invention of the loud internal combustion engine, the grandest houses in St. Louis were frequently built on the busiest streets in the city.
Lami Street in Between 12th and 13th Streets Post….
My relatives lived in these pictures homes from 1870s: to 1920s as Backer, Runge, and Borchard . They were related cousins from back in the small farm communities around their Catholic old parish in Ostercappeln Germany. They also had cousins who lived in these size homes on all the streets of what they called near south city (they would say they never heard anyone call it Soulard when they lived there) all in St Peter and Paul parish.
This post is not exactly accurate as these families were by today’s standards living a pretty comfortable life. They were just Germans who didn’t believe in showing off their wealth via big homes. Just like you see today the people who live in big homes and drive nice cars likely aren’t as wealthy as you may assume. Don’t assume these families weren’t pretty well off.
Oh, I totally agree and hope that I didn’t convey that in the original post.