Moving east, there are more businesses that replaced houses. The photo above is perhaps the southeast corner, but I can’t be sure. The house in the background is gone for certain.

The Fountain on Locust has become a famous restaurant in the amazing Spanish Revival building below.

While this building below was marked for demolition, it was not and has been renovated and occupied with new businesses.

Moving along, we hit a vacant lot, which was once St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, which is a rarity in that it was purchased from a Protestant congregation, St. John’s Methodist in 1902. St, John’s moved to the southwest corner of Washington and Kingshighway at Holy Corners.

It closed years in 1982 after the Italian immigrant population in the neighborhood moved away, and then was damaged by fire, finally being demolished in 1995. Vanishing St. Louis has photos of its demolition.

The church above was nearby, I was told, but I don’t remember its name.

There were many beautiful town houses nearby, as well, which are all gone.

There were also many Romanesque Revival houses, as well, as epitomized by the Cupples House to the west.