The next block between Emmett and today’s Soulard Street (Lafayette and Soulard would flip later in the Nineteenth Century) was already filled with houses. But interestingly, many of them have changed in form and style. The two churches are still standing; No. 2 was the German Presbyterian Church before it became Most Holy Trinity Slovak Roman Catholic Church in 1898. It is now an event space. No. 3 is still Trinity Lutheran Church. There’s a joke that the Archdiocese chose the name for its church as a response to the Protestant one across the alley.

There’s a nice three story Second Empire building right on the corner with Emmett and South Ninth Street.

I’ve looked at the house below before, back in January of 2021.

Histories of Soulard claim that landowners would first build a rental flounder in the back and use it to generate income to construct the owner’s dwelling in the front. I don’t know if that’s true, but the theory is that when you see these guys at the back of the lot it means the owner never got around to building his house up front.

We see a later transitional Second Empire apartment building below as the the style fell out of favor and there was a transition to more eclectic styles by German Americans.

This is just a lovely streetscape.

Note the building in the center right; in this instance there are two front doors for the ground floor apartments, but the center mousehole allows access to back staircases to the upper floors. There might very well have been no indoor stairwells originally.

We then reach Soulard Street, the former Lafayette Avenue.