I then cruised down Osceola Street, where I saw something surprising: an abandoned house. It is a rarity in what is other a very healthy neighborhood. It’s also a neat little house.

Much of the blocks on Osceola are the sides of houses since they primarily face the north-south street, but we have some nice duplexes, such as the one below.

Check out these houses below, with the careful uses of rubble wall construction on the porches and chimneys, where are interestingly on the front facade.

And then, oooh, we come across one of the original houses in the neighborhood, probably from the 1850s when this area was very, very rural. This house very well might have been a farm house.

The corner store is vacant, at least on the ground, edged out by supermarkets.

The are borders an industrial area, itself created by a rail line that swings around Tower Grove Park as it continues south.