There was a fire at the old DePaul Hospital/closed Northview Village on December 2, and the Fire Department described the damage as “severe.” This is a major development, as right after the failed nursing home closed, security seemed to be fairly tight, as at least one man was arrested for burglary within a week or…
Tag: Abandoned Buildings
Mullanphy Tenement, Revisited November 2024
It has been over a decade since I last visited the Mullanphy Tenement back in September of 2013 (I first visited back in the winter of 2009), and I was wondering what was happening with the historic building. The answer? Absolutely nothing! The famous “Buy/Sell/Trade” sign has disappeared, but other than that, it looks largely…
Bob Reuter’s Boyhood Home, Abandoned
I was scanning around on Google Satellite View and happened to go over Bob Reuter’s boyhood home on Bailey Avenue just east of Fairground Park. Even from the air, it was looking awfully “lush,” so to speak, which was a change from the time I went by back in August of 2013, shortly after my…
A Totally Preventable Fire
Update: The house has been demolished and is now a vacant lot. 3113 Arsenal Street in the Tower Grove East neighborhood was gutted by fire on the night of November 12. It’s the usual story: the owner of an abandoned house who’s owned the building for decades deferred maintenance for so long that finally it…
South Down North Grand Boulevard, Sunset
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…
4500-4600 Block of Ashland Avenue, Revisited
The blocks are long in the Greater Ville, and the 4500-4600 blocks of Ashland Avenue are in between Cora and North Taylor avenues. I stopped by last year briefly in July of 2023, but looked at the two halves , 4500 and 4600, back in January of 2019. Very little has changed, and there is…
Historic Farmstead, Route 94, Eastern St. Charles County
This farmstead along Highway 94 in the eastern “peninsula” portion of St. Charles County has several interesting buildings. The first one is the historic Greek Revival farmhouse, perhaps from the 1860s or thereabouts. There’s a nice barn that is collapsing, but the real interesting feature is below: it appears to be a grain silo, but…
Former St. Engelbert’s Campus
One of the more popular former Catholic parishes that I’ve posted about before is the former St. Engelbert’s on Shreve Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. It might also win the informal award of “Largest Catholic church building most people have never heard of in St. Louis,” as well. It’s huge. I was poking around on…
Red Bud Avenue Between Carter and West Florissant Avenues
I found myself wandering down Red Bud Avenue in the O’Fallon neighborhood, and there are just so many beautiful homes around here. Well, except for the one with no roof and no back wall below. Besides that one. The house below is one of those classics in St. Louis that is actually a multi-family, but…
Former Garavaglia’s, Redevelopment Coming Soon
I last looked at the former Garavaglia’s back in March of 2008(!) and I have some great news to report: the building will finally see redevelopment in the coming year. The building has been abandoned since at least 1990, having fallen victim to the construction of I-44 severing its clientele from the store. Lots of…