One block south of Marmaduke Street is Odell, which is one of the most fascinating long blocks in the City of St. Louis. Odell was originally named Cleveland in the Breezy Heights Subdivision, but due to the possible confusion with the street of the same name further east, it was renamed.

It is lined with a whole raft of different housing styles, and is reflective, like its neighboring streets, with the eclecticism of growing over a long period of time.

We have Cape Cods, such as the one below.

But we also have wood frame houses built in the 1880s or 90s.

Note how high up they are–clearly built before the street was graded. Remember, the City originally made property owners pay for the street to be built. Talk about free enterprise!

This house below is almost certainly very old but it was stuccoed and received a front porch sometime in the early Twentieth Century.

There are Nineteenth Century tract homes, as well.

Wealthy St. Louisans could built these houses and then take the train from the Cheltenham station to downtown. Or maybe they worked in the offices of the industries around this area.

The houses below are again probably workers’ cottages for the clay-related industries nearby in the Cheltenham area.