I’ve apparently never photographed this section of Sullivan Avenue between Blair Avenue and North Fourteenth Street. There’s a wide variety of architectural styles, and for the most part, while there are some vacant lots allowing long views to the backs of other buildings, the street wall is intact. But the Second Empire architecture is really…
Tag: Alleys
Near North Riverfront Streetscape Survivors
I found myself checking out those blocks cut off by the construction of the Mark Twain Expressway that is known as the Near North Riverfront. First up is the storefront left behind with the demolition of the apartment building on Branch Avenue. I’ve also looked at the area in 2012, which has become increasingly industrial…
Old North, Winter 2022
Update: I looked at the house above again in May of 2022. I took a look around Old North after looking at the Webster School renovations to see how the neighborhood was going. Update: The house has now been demolished. This old survivor above seems to be holding on, but I don’t know for how…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 59: Oregon Avenue Between Keokuk and Chippewa Streets
We’ve now traveled enough north on Oregon Avenue that we’ve popped up onto Pictorial St. Louis, and it gives us a wealth of information about what was happening on the block 150 years ago. The house below had already been built, but as we can see, it was modified probably in the 1940s to keep…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 57: Oregon Avenue Between Gasconade and Osage Streets
We take a look to the west down Gasconade as we head north up Oregon Avenue, looking at the west side of the street. While there are some one-off houses, there are mostly the standard South City houses with the main entrance on the side, which is something I have not really seen in most…
North on Compton Avenue #3: Gravois Park from Chippewa to Winnebago Streets, Revisited
Crossing over Chippewa and past an invasive parking lot, we see this first house that was recently rehabbed after sitting vacant for years. See the east side of the street from June of 2017. You can see the west side here. Again, there are more of those wood frame houses mixed in with later brick…
Eighteenth Street Between Sidney and Barton Streets, East Side
Continuing my practice of going up and down blocks in the City of St. Louis with interesting architecture, I’m going to look at some notable and very intact streets on the south side of Soulard. The first one I’ll be looking at is in Eighteenth Street from Sidney to Barton Street, passing over Victor. We’ll…
Texas Avenue Between Arsenal and Pestalozzi Streets, Benton Park West, Revisited Fall 2020
I realized that my previous visit to the two blocks of Texas Avenue between Arsenal and Pestalozzi in September of 2019 (Crittenden cuts through there, but it’s practically just a glorified alley in Benton Park West) did not do this incredible stretch of street justice. In fact, the corner storefront, above and below, right on…
From the Vault: Downtown Palmyra
Downtown Palmyra is typical of many small county seats: an abundance of Italianate storefronts of about two stories high that were built in clusters so they create a “street wall” along Main Street. What is fun to see is how buildings, built at the same time or within the same decade, have taken on lives…
Salena and Cushing Streets, Benton Park
Just to the west of the old Falstaff Plant No. 10 and just south of Gravois there is an interesting pocket of house in the Benton Park neighborhood. Blues City Deli is nearby. What is also interesting is that there are some very old houses, including ones that probably date back to as early as…