Surprisingly, I had never looked at Pennsylvania Avenue in Benton Park West, so I sought to fix that recently, heading north from its intersection with Cherokee Street.
There has been some rehabbing going, unfortunately with some people who don’t know where they’re doing, as evidenced by the gray paint. House prices have also gone way up.
I looked at the Pomegranate Temple below all the way back in July of 2014, but I still have not found out any more about this building in the last decade.
Next we come upon what looks to be a very old house, which you can see below with a simple dentillated cornice.
We reach the intersection with Utah Street, but not before we see this interesting house with a strange section of vinyl siding above the front porch.
Looking at Pictorial St. Louis, Pennsylvania Avenue is the middle of the detail; perhaps that old house above is visible at the end of the block. As can be seen, in 1875, the area was largely rural and the buildings that line the street now were yet to be built.
The gray house looks better to me than the red house. You say they don’t know what they’re doing, but I t might have looked a lot worse before. The red house looks like it has some kind of coating over thr brick.