Built in 1961, this Modernist apartment tower was designed by H. Waldman of Architectural Design Associates, built by Millstone Construction with engineering provided by Arthur Monsey. It is one of two Modernist towers built, bringing major development to an end along Skinker west of Forest Park.
Word of Life
What was this little building originally? There were packing houses in the neighborhood, and there is a wing that comes off to the right. It’s a little church, now.
The Last of Its Kind, Samuel Shepard Drive
Update: Damaged by storms in August of 2017. Demolished in the spring of 2019. This little guy is the last of what was originally five row houses, perhaps only saved because it used its stout neighbors for support. But it gets even more exciting on the side, where obvious signs of the neighboring house are…
Backs, Row of Houses, Samuel Shepard Drive
Just look at how beautiful these backyards are (and could be), shaded by this large tree. This is living close to your neighbors, requiring to actually get to know them.
Front, Row of Houses, Samuel Shepard Drive
Update: The house on the left in the pictures below was demolished in May of 2019. I’m constantly drawn back to this row of houses, owned by the State of Missouri. Elegant, neighborly, and still full of potential since the State has stabilized them, they need to be sold to the right developer. This is…
SaLees Kennard House, Midtown
Update: The back wing of the house has collapsed, as of December 1, 2016. At some point by mid-December of 2018, the remaining western side wall suffered a catastrophic collapse, threatening the structural integrity of the house. It was demolished in April of 2019. I wrote about this desolate block of Samuel Shepard Drive last…
Hillside Tombs, Bellefontaine Cemetery
I was always much more used to seeing these subterranean tombs on the East Coast, and there are plenty of mausolea in Bellefontaine, but when I start to look more closely, there are more tombs built into the side of the steep hills than you might think.
Coming Soon
Update: The in-fill is now complete (fifth photograph down). The mansion or institutional building mentioned below was the Charless School (fourth photograph down). I’ve long been intrigued by the dense collection of houses built just after the Civil War to the northeast of the intersection of Gravois and Jefferson. What fire insurance maps and Compton and…
West Florissant Avenue, College Hill
Update: Demolished for a plaza by the fall of 2019. I could have sworn I remember the building on the left being occupied in the recent past.