Plans for a new “Angelica Street” police station were announced in 1929, as the eponymous building at Angelica and 9th streets was in danger of being outside the boundaries of the Sixth Precinct as the city grew to the west. The Police Board budgeted $150,000 for the new station at the corner of West Florissant…
Monument Companies
Rosebrough Monument Company has been in operation since 1845, and also has a location on Chippewa at the city border. This location is right next to Bellefontaine and Calvary cemeteries. Classic Monument is right next door, and is owned by Weiss Monument Works, which also operates in the Metro East. Tisch Monuments has been operating…
Bellefontaine Cemetery, August 2025
I hadn’t been by Bellefontaine Cemetery in a while so I thought I would swing by. The flowers by the gate house were looking wonderful. I tried to find monuments and mausolea that I hadn’t seen before.
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Belleville
Heading back towards St. Louis on Main Street in Belleville, we then visited Mount Carmel Cemetery, which is the diocesan cemetery. It is quite large. And while there is a fair amount of forest that has grown up at Mount Hope down the street, there are wide open lawns that show off the rolling terrain…
Mount Hope Cemetery, Belleville
Now owned by the City of Belleville, Mount Hope Cemetery is a perfect example of how Protestant burial grounds owned by Lutheran or Evangelical congregations were not part of a larger entity such as a Roman Catholic diocese, so when the church associated with the cemetery folded, the accompanying graveyard suffered as well. In this…
Osage Street Between Iowa and Ohio Avenues
And just like that, crossing over Iowa Avenue on Osage Street, and the houses go back about thirty years compared to the buildings we were looking at just two blocks to the west. The Second Empire, with its Mansard roods and wood cornices, as well as Romanesque Revival houses with its brick ornament line the…
Osage Street Between Oregon and Iowa Avenues
Heading east of Oregon Avenue, we continue on Osage Street in Dutchtown. There are rows of bungalows in a sort of Arts and Crafts style with jerkinhead roofs. Then there’s this interesting building, which at first glance looks like a ranch house but is actually an apartment building that is L-shaped, with two units on…
Osage Street Between Nebraska and Oregon Avenues
Moving along, we see some construction going on to the side of a three story Second Empire house. But what’s interesting is that right next door is a four-family that is clearly decades newer, so development came in fits and starts. We even have some Permastone below! Nothing drives me more crazy than when smaller…
Osage Street Between Pennsylvania and Nebraska Avenues
Passing by Pennsylvania Avenue, we proceed east on Osage Street and spot this interesting little doorway filled in with a palisade fence. I wonder if it was original to the building or if it was added in later to provide for more security. Regardless, it is such a great little detail, though I wish it…
Osage Street Between Minnesota and Pennsylvania Avenues
We’ve looked at the blocks of Osage Street to the west of here before, here and here, back in March of 2020, so let’s continue where we left off at Minnesota and head east. These houses are typical of Dutchtown, looking like they were built around the main period of development, from 1890 to 1910….