North of Washburn is the town of La Rose, which is in Marshall County. The country actually has two parts on either side of the Illinois River. The town is dominated by a grain elevator, a part of which looks to be quite old. The booth for the truck scale is still standing, much like…
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Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, Monroe Street Between North Florissant Avenue and North Fourteenth Streets
Heading east down Monroe Street, we come across some interesting houses that have received Formstone, which I am familiar with from living in Baltimore. I am not sure what possessed these owners to do this to their houses. This old wood frame house is not long for this world, I’ve been told. I’ve always been…
Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, Branch Street Between North Twentieth and Nineteenth Streets
Branch Street forms the nebulous boundary between Old North and Hyde Park, and there is much vacant land in this border region. Also, there are many more wood frame houses that speak to the old age of the buildings. On neighboring streets such as Knapp Street and other nearby streets, Paul McKee’s ownership has furthered…
Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, Sullivan Avenue Between Blair Avenue and North Fourteenth Street
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…
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…