Then we hit a pocket of really old vernacular houses, wood frame and all. It makes me wonder why there were houses out here so early.
Frequently there were truck farms and also a lot of greenhouses. Of course, there were also a lot of quarries.
This is a very interesting house, with strains of the Arts and Crafts style, but with a very hulking feeling to it!
Then we get to those South City bungalows whose design is very adaptable, and you can see how they can either be one story…
…or right next door, simply extended into two stories with dual apartments.
The grid switches, so houses now face the east-west streets.
My father grew up in 6018 Louisiana. 8 people in all. 832 sq ft. My grandma would tell us stories about african american sevrants living a few blocks south of them that worked for rich people who owned big houses around Carondelet Park
Ah interesting. You know there has long been an African American population in that area that I think goes back to the Civil War. There is an historic AA church just north of Carondelet Park, as well as one in Carondelet proper.
My great grandparents moved to St. Louis from Grand Rapids, MI in the mid to late 1890’s and bought the white house with the dormer in front at 6109 Louisiana to the north of the beige/brown house in your second photo. The house remained in my grandfather’s family until just after the death of my g grandmother in 1961. They had chickens and cows in the backyard in the early years. Originally, the house was lit with gas lighting. My grandfather who was an electrician converted the house to electricity sometime in the 20’s. My grandfather and grand mother bought a house at 705 Fillmore at Alabama in 1919 and lived there until 1981.
I have a photo taken in the backyard of the Louisiana home of all of the St. Louis and Grand Rapids family prior to heading off to the World’s Fair in 1904. I would attach it here if I could