Leaving behind Arlington Avenue, we head east on Wabada Avenue, on a section that we have not looked at before. While the street traverses much of the North Side, this section is quiet.
Arlington Avenue, Wells-Goodfellow
I’ve looked at Arlington Avenue in Wells-Goodfellow further to the north in these two posts from March of 2017 and July of 2023, but this time I started at Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. and went north. There’s a wide variety of housing styles, from four-family flats… …to in-fill that looks like it was damaged…
Warwick Avenue
Warwick Avenue is a short little street in between Euclid and North Kingshighway just north of MLK, and just south of Cupples School. But it’s an interesting street of houses built right after World War II, with nice bungalows that you typically see in St. Louis Hills.
4700-4800 Block of Cote Brilliante Avenue
I’ve revisited the 4700-4800 block of Cote Brilliante numerous times over the years, most recently, I think back in October of 2024. It’s overgrown, as can be seen below. But there are still plenty of houses that are in great shape, as can be seen above. I find it interesting that there are so many…
Former Federal Building, 1520 Market Street
The former Federal Building, which is all that it was called when it first opened, relieved office space pressures from the Old Post Office, which actually again holds offices for the federal government. It’s interesting reading old newspaper articles at the time, because it was at the height of the dislike for the Second Empire,…
Koplar Fountains, Jewish American Memorial, Forest Park
I’d first looked at the Jewish American Memorial back in April of 2014 and then again in December of 2019 (twelfth photo), but I had never noticed two triangular shaped fountains on the plaza around the monument. Named after the Koplar Family, who no doubt paid for their construction, they are accented by some beautiful…
Jewish Orthodox Old Home, September 2025
Not much has been happening up at the old nursing home at Grand and Blair. There’s more graffiti, that’s for sure. There hasn’t been more demolition after the removal of the crumbling wing back in 2024 that I noticed.
Quinette
Back in July, we had looked at Quinette Road, which terminated at Meramec Station Road. Today we’ll look at the small speculative development of Quinette, which was platted at the terminus of the road, far out in West County at the time in 1858. The nature of the Quinette Subdivision becomes clearer after reading an…
Public Lot, Calvary Cemetery
I thought I had photographed these monuments before, but it seems that I have never featured them before. The monument above commemorates two members of the Nimíipuu people who died in St. Louis in 1831. More commonly known by their French name, the Nez Perce, which means “pierced nose,” the delegation was one their east…
Sheldon Memorial
The Sheldon Memorial was built in 1912 for the Ethical Society according to designs of the architect Louis Clemens Spiering. Spiering is actually a very interesting figure, having participated in the design of the 1904 World’s Fair, as well as being a descendant of the famous German Marxist Karl Ludwig Bernays. St. Louis, as pretty…