Demolition began less than a week after the last fire was extinguished. Back in May of this year, I commented on the little-noticed fire at the former Federal Cold Storage Warehouse on North Broadway. I had remarked that a fire in such warm weather was suspicious. While the weather was cold the last couple of…
Tag: Abandoned Buildings
House Springs, Jefferson County
Update: National Register property added in March of 2026. I stumbled onto the original small community of House Springs, which is built right on Gravois Road in Jefferson County. Route 30, which is frequently associated with Gravois, has been reoriented to the north and is four lane, divided highway in this area. Apparently some of…
Oregon Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
Heading north of Cherokee Street on Oregon Avenue, we see this simple house above, which intrigues me; it clearly once had a front porch which had been lost. Then we see some of those one story bungalows with the huge window in the front that my friends years ago named “Cyclops Houses.” I think the…
The Old Quarry on Utah Street
Things are not looking good for the houses built on the old quarry on Utah Street that I last looked at back in May of 2019 (second photo). I believe there has been additional demolition, and there has certainly been more abandonment. The houses are looking really bad as the settling has continued. It’s dramatic…
East of North Street, Peoria, Part One
I’d looked at some of the streets northeast of Main Street in Peoria before, but this time I went up North Avenue. North Avenue heads to the north just about opposite of High Street, which I’ve looked at twice before, once in September of 2013 and 2019. These houses date from the early Twentieth Century,…
6,000th Post
Let’s face it. I’ve been talking to a lot of people in South City and many of our favorite businesses (and not so favorite businesses) have been closing lately. There’s clearly something going on where there’s just not enough money going to locally-owned businesses and even national chains, and the result is that many commercial…
Church Road, Baden, Revisited
I looked at Church Road in Baden extensively back in the winter of 2018 and last Saturday I went back and looked at the distinctive wood frame duplexes on the lower end of the street. I was happy to see that one had received a nice green coat of paint or new siding. It looks…
Water Retention Basins, Baden
Let me tell you a story about a creek. It was called the Gingrass Creek, and some geniuses thought it would be a good idea to bury it under a large section of the Baden neighborhood. I looked at this area back on that freezing cold morning back in the winter of 2018. You can…
Glasgow Village Today
Having looked at the history and read about Glasgow Village in the paper, and realizing I hadn’t actually visited in a long time and only cursorily, I set out early on Saturday to take a look. I went up Riverview Drive and entered the area via Spring Garden Drive and drove around the southern portion…
Former Kirkwood Athletic Fields
I was in the area so I thought I would take a look at the old Kirkwood Athletic Association ball fields down in the valley along the Meramec River. They’re looking pretty bad, to say the least, but apparently there’s a movement afoot to put them back into business. Originally, I have read, these were…