When you’re caught up in the traffic flying down Forest Park Parkway, you might not have ever really noticed that Pershing Avenue peals off to the right at the bend as it sweeps off towards downtown Clayton.
This is in fact University City right here; it dips down and blocks Clayton from reaching over and touching the City of St. Louis completely.
I sort of chuckle at all of the streets being the same names as their counterparts in the city at the same latitude; perhaps as the wealthy of St. Louis moved west, it was comforting to just simply add a couple thousand onto the number of their address while having familiar street names.
But I love these swank four-families that line the first block of Perhaps just west of Forest Park Parkway, each with its own sense of style.
They range from the Colonial Revival above…
…to more Modern…
…to the Tudor Revival that is so common in the 1920s.
