I was coming back from St. Charles and I needed to get to Grand Center, so Grand Boulevard was the logical route to take. I snapped some photos on the way down the grand thoroughfare. Above, the old Second German Presbyterian Church, which I photographed back in February of 2019, is still standing.
One of the few commercial buildings left further south on Grand before North Florissant Avenue is still holding on. The Bissell Water Tower or standpipe is in the background.
St. John’s United Church of Christ is holding on.
I never noticed this building before, but it is an old YMCA, at Sullivan Avenue, it is now Mission St. Louis.
Further south, this old Italianate house had been converted into a funeral home; it seems to be still in operation as the Radford Funeral Home.
There is even a small mosque in operation. Grand Boulevard is going to be transformed soon by Great Rivers Greenway.
Other than that 3500 numbered building. I’m happy that all the buildings you photographed near Bissell Tower are in some good hands beyond the court bureaucracy junk for that old Old Second German Presbyterian Church building 🙂 Many street blocks east of Turner Park. I wish Saint Louis was still a 28 ward city. 🙁 but there are still many endangered brick buildings built with Dogtown mined clay that are still in a “fingers cross” safe zone months after Samuel L. Moore’s passing, and thank you for sharing those present day Normandy photos, the houses make me think of Affton 🙂