Crossing over Wyoming Street in Benton Park West, we see this massive corner store building, which certainly had a large space above for the family who owned the business below. It even seems to have had a substantial living space on the third floor.
This building was most likely built for and lived in by Henry D. Steimke and his wife Lillian. This is the St. Louis Commons, after all, so not surprisingly the carriage house in back is leaning due to subsidence, most likely due to a filled-in sinkhole.
The three bungalows up the street past the alley are also a little crooked!
The in-fill perhaps filled in a lot where a house was torn down due to subsiding and collapse.
This bungalow below has received an interesting second floor…
We then reach Juniata Street.
Interestingly, it seems that many houses were already built by 1875 on this block of Pennsylvania Avenue but none of them seem to have survived.
