I wandered around the rest of College Hill, and spotted some of these houses. I’ve looked at the house below, which never ceases to amaze me whenever I still see it standing, in January of 2023, spring of 2021 (seventh photo), March of 2021, in the snowy winter of 2019, November of 2016 (third photo) April of 2018 (fifth photo) and December of 2018 (last…
Tag: Abandoned Buildings
College Avenue, College Hill
After leaving Bellefontaine Cemetery, I hung a left on College Avenue in the College Hill neighborhood, which I haven’t really looked at much lately. While there is a lot of abandonment and demolition, there are some people who are not giving up, and as seen below, have doubled down on their commitment to their home….
Kansas City, Baltimore, Dayton, Louisville and Indianapolis Skyscrapers
Rounding out our survey of early Twentieth Century centerpiece skyscrapers, we look at a couple more, starting first on the other side of Missouri in Kansas City. The Kansas City Power and Light Building, built in 1931, was the tallest building in Missouri until 1976. Designed by the Kansas City firm of Hoit, Price &…
Downtown Granite City, Early March 2025
I last stopped by downtown Granite City in Spring of 2024, and there has not been much happening other than at the Granite City Arts and Design District on the far side of the area. I did discover another Sinclair Dinosaur which had been put on display along with a bunch of other Route 66…
Mid Rivers Mall
Continuing our examination of the concept of the “shopping mall,” we visited Mid Rivers Mall, located at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Mid Rivers Mall Drive. The mall is doing fine, but it’s not doing great. There are four hundred thousand people located within four or five miles of the mall, and they are…
Fire, Former Beiderwieden Funeral Home
The old Beiderwieden Funeral Home on Chippewa Street just west of South Grand Boulevard was severely gutted by flames on February 14. Long vacant and only appearing in the news briefly a few years ago when it was considered as the new location of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (the founder’s daughter was confused when…
Tragic Fire, Quinn AME Chapel
Tragic, terrible news arrived on February 23, when fire severely damaged the historic Quinn AME Chapel in Carondelet. I looked at the African American church back in December of 2020. As others have noted, due its construction in 1869, the building is perhaps the only one left built by the former independent town of Carondelet….
Angelrodt Street from North Twentieth Street to Blair Avenue, Revisited
Continuing around Hyde Park, I headed down Angelrodt Street east of Twentieth Street, which I looked at back in January of 2018. I first spotted this house, which is rapidly losing its vinyl siding. I’ve always been fascinated by these little houses, built a half century or more after Hyde Park was already a bustling…
Twentieth Street Between Newhouse and Bremen Avenues
Despite the sad loss of Friedens, I still think that Hyde Park is such a great neighborhood, full of so many beautiful buildings. Twentieth Street, one block over, is almost completely intact. I really love this storefront church, below. There is an old wood frame house behind, which must be very old, and then here’s…
Former Friedens German Evangelical Church, In Ruins
Well, I guess there’s not much to say but St. Louis has lost another beautiful church to fire, most likely set by squatters trying to keep warm on one of the coldest nights of the winter so far. In this case, it was the former Friedens German Evangelical Lutheran Church, which I first looked at…