Meramec Street Between Ohio Avenues and South Grand Boulevard, South Side, Dutchtown

I’ve looked at the north side of Meramec Street in Dutchtown extensively, in two groups of posts that start here and here, but I’ve never looked at the south side except here and there with individual buildings. Let’s start at South Broadway and work our way west. Thanks to Found St. Louis, I learned the house above was the home of Heidi Lange, an architect who worked with Theodore Link. The house is surely from the 1860s and is a good example of a home built out in the country in southern portion of the old St. Louis Commons.

But of course, as the area began to fill in due to strong streetcar connections, we start to see single family houses and multifamily apartments being built.

The streetcar saw many residential buildings give way to storefronts.

And of course, down the street from a huge Catholic church, a funeral home would stay busy, along with other Protestant churches nearby.

It seems the old John Withnell property was purchased to become Maryville College. If you look closely in this photograph with the first St. Anthony of Padua church off in the distance.

Withnell, John Residence. *Meramec Avenue looking west towards Michigan Avenue*, after 1860, Missouri History Museum, N03930.

The old stone wall once surrounded the old Maryville College. It was demolished and there is a post office in its place on the east side of the property.

The west side of the old property has an apartment complex.

Next up is the former St. Anthony of Padua school, which is now the Confluence Academy charter school.

St. Anthony of Padua has been located here since in 1863.

But originally there was an earlier church that was replaced by the current one that towers over the neighborhood.

Ed Golterman, *St. Anthony of Padua*, August 6, 1927, Missouri History Museum, N39326

Moving to the west, this house has always intrigued me, as there is clearly an office in the basement on the Louisiana Avenue side. Ehrhardt Livingstone lived in the house and was in fact a physician, so I bet he ran his practice out of the basement.

Then the rest of the street until South Grand Boulevard has relatively normal houses, such as the ones you see below.

But I’m suspicious about this house, with this address. There is in fact a man named John Withnell Dunn, but I’m wondering if this is actually a photograph of the John Withnell house to the east.