We cross over Klemm Street and encounter some more grand homes, whose backyards are truncated by some houses built perpendicular to Magnolia Avenue on the cross street.

Their styles reflect the eclecticism that is so common in the early Twentieth Century, with styles coming from all sorts of sources.

This house has a wonderful porch with what look to be elaborate Ionic columns above a broad rounded front door portal.

Then we reach the huge swath of the physical plant of Tower Grove Baptist Church, whose land has an interesting history.

While some houses were demolished to expand the church’s land, we discover that in fact the corner parcel at Tower Grove Avenue was a large greenhouse. Looking back to the Hopkins Map from February 17, we discover that these greenhouses were once owned by Henry Shaw!

But interestingly, Shaw or his successors divested the property to the Michel Plant and Bulb Company; you can see their catalog here.

The church and first school building, in what I might call a severe and modern Colonial Revival style, were built in 1954 on the old greenhouse property.

The eastern wing, which caused the demolition of some houses, was built in 1958.