Update: Armour, Hunter Meatpacking and the mule barns have been demolished as of July 2016. The status of the roundhouse is undetermined as of July 2016. Here is a preview of much new material that I will be focusing on for the next couple of weeks. Above is the remnants of the Hunter Meatpacking Plant….
Hunter Meat Packing Plant First Image
Update: The plant was completely demolished in 2012.
Back Door, Benton Place, Lafayette Square
The famous private street in St. Louis apparently once had a door in the retaining wall on the north side of the enclave. How long it has been cemented shut is a mystery. See pictures of the door and wall before it was closed in here.
Old Dillard’s Building
Update: The building has now been converted into apartments, a hotel, and the National Blues Museum.
Edward Long School, Bevo
Read more about the great school buildings of St. Louis here, at Built St. Louis.
Historic Building Lost in Champaign
Hey Listen reported last week on the loss of a nearly completely renovated building in downtown Champaign, Illinois.
Hadley Township, Richmond Heights
Update: The southern half of Hadley Township was in fact demolished in 2014. See my photographs here. By now most people are familiar with the abject failure of Richmond Heights to take over one of the last historically African-American neighborhoods in Central St. Louis County. Hadley Township, while suffering from deferred maintenance (brought on by…