I thought I would take some more photographs of the Oakherst Concrete Block National Historic District while I was up in the West End.

Platted in 1906 as the Woodland Park Addition, as we’ve seen before back in October of 2017, concrete blocks were manufactured on site for what was considered a new exciting building material.

Interestingly, there is one brick house in the middle. The Sanborn map does not show this house, so perhaps one of the concrete block houses burned down or was demolished and was replaced later with this house.

I photographed this house from the south…

…and from the east.

We’re now on Oakley Place.

I remember the first time I saw this house below, it was abandoned.