On Pestalozzi, we see the other side of that Civil War era building we saw on Iowa, and then we proceed down Pestalozzi, which is an interesting mix of housing forms, as the dominant streets in the neighborhood are the north-south streets, so most buildings face them. But there are the occasional multi-family buildings facing…
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Iowa Avenue Between Crittenden and Pestalozzi Streets, Benton Park West, Fall 2020
Cutting down Crittenden Street, we come across the longtime former home of Southside Early Childhood Center, which is now located at Jefferson and Russell. They have been helping children for generations in the City. The rest of the block is an eclectic mix of houses that tend to the early Twentieth Century for years of…
Texas Avenue Between Arsenal and Pestalozzi Streets, Benton Park West, Revisited Fall 2020
I realized that my previous visit to the two blocks of Texas Avenue between Arsenal and Pestalozzi in September of 2019 (Crittenden cuts through there, but it’s practically just a glorified alley in Benton Park West) did not do this incredible stretch of street justice. In fact, the corner storefront, above and below, right on…
Wyoming Street Between Pennsylvania and Nebraska Avenues, Benton Park West, North Side
This massive commercial building above has a rare and valuable ghost sign for the Green Tree Brewery, which was once located in Soulard. The houses on this block are older than to the west and there are some nice Italianate houses, such as the one above. And we see the appearance of some of my…
Wyoming Street Between Minnesota and Pennsylvania Avenues, Benton Park West, North Side
Wyoming Street near the old Union Brewery/later Falstaff Plant No. 2 has a row of exceptional houses that I’ve looked at before. I wonder if some of the upper management of the brewery originally lived in some of these buildings. After those first two exceptional four-family apartment buildings are a row of houses that show…
California Avenue Between Wyoming and Arsenal Streets, Benton Park West
North of Wyoming Street, California Avenue has the normal Benton Park West style houses, influences by the German immigrants who settled here around 1900. There is the heavy influence of the Romanesque Revival. My friends nicknamed the houses below “cyclops” houses because of their large Roman style front windows. The front doors are on the…
Ohio Avenue Between Wyoming and Arsenal Streets, Benton Park West
Those little bungalows from after World War II pop up on Ohio Avenue just north of Wyoming, but then the normal architecture one would expect appears in two story Second Empire houses. There is also a mixture of other housing styles, many of which have been modified over the last century to simplify maintenance costs…
Texas Avenue Between Wyoming and Arsenal Streets, Benton Park West
Texas Avenue in Benton Park West in between Arsenal and Wyoming streets is due west of Benton Park, and it sits on top of a huge old sinkhole, which was still largely visible in Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, published in 1876. As you can see above, the large sinkhole stretched across Texas Avenue…
Iowa Avenue, Northern Benton Park West, September 2019
Benton Park West is easily one of the most beautiful and most balanced urban neighborhoods in the city of St. Louis. It is just the mix of densities to provide something for everybody. Its future and health will help determine where the entire city goes in the next thirty years.
Texas Avenue, Pestalozzi to Arsenal, Northern Benton Park West, September 2019
Update: I went back a year later in September of 2020. Houses that had been abandoned for years have been rehabbed and occupied on Texas Avenue in between Pestalozzi and Arsenal on the east side of the street. A trend I am not happy about is the painting of the beautiful red brick; the cheap…