Crossing over Gannett Street as we head north on Morgan Ford Road (one of the few thoroughfares to preserve such an appellation in the city), we see more of the wide variety of building stock of Bevo. While there is a preponderance of wood frame housing in the neighborhood, on major streets due to their…
Tag: Arts and Crafts Style
Morgan Ford Between Gravois and Gannett Avenues, Bevo
Let’s head north on Morgan Ford (it seems that it should be two separate words, after all), starting at the intersection of Gravois Avenue and Delor Street. As far as I can tell, the buildings below were demolished on the southeast corner for a parking lot. Can any longtime residents help? Heading north, we pass…
Ray Avenue Northeast of Delor Street, Bevo
Heading back down that stretch of Delor Street we’ve looked at before back in July of 2013, we pass by the immediate neighborhood around St. John the Baptist, which I examined back in July of 2013 and and June of 2021. We’ll head of Ray Avenue, which is just one of many of the quiet…
Delor Street West of Morgan Ford, Bevo
I’ve looked at Delor Street in Bevo southeast of its intersection with Gravois and Morgan Ford back in July of 2013, so this time I looked at the secondary artery from around Christy Boulevard east to Morgan Ford. The street is a perfect illustration of the transition in the early Twentieth Century from the rich…
Exploring Bevo
Beyond the windmill there’s a huge neighborhood out there in Bevo, and I feel like I’ve been horribly neglecting it in the 5,000+ posts I’ve made in this website. Perhaps I’ve had trouble understanding the area; it’s not a bunch of red brick houses, but a lot of Dutch Colonial style houses with their gambrel…
Cedar Street, Part One, Washington, Franklin County
Cedar Street turned out to be a delight, with a well-preserved stretch of houses from a wide range of styles. Below, looking way off in the west where the trees are is the location of the thoroughfare. The street works cohesively because despite being so stylistically divergent, the use of the same color of brick…
Around Immanuel Lutheran Church, Washington, Franklin County
It wouldn’t be a German American town in Missouri without a Lutheran church across town from the Roman Catholic one! In this case, it’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, founded in 1862, with the current church constructed in 1882. But let’s look at the general neighborhood around the church, which is a combination of parking lots, intact…
Wall Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Turning from Maupin onto Wall Street in New Haven, we’re greeted by perhaps one of the most beautiful stretches of streetscape in Missouri. The architectural styles range from the mid Nineteenth Century to the early Twentieth with Greek Revival to the Arts and Crafts. Perhaps what is interesting is that due to the sheer drop…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Catalan and Marceau Streets, Carondelet
Polishing off the full length of Pennsylvania Avenue in Carondelet, which I did in two earlier spurts earlier this winter here and here, we now start almost at the River des Peres, at Catalan Street. Some of these houses very well might have housed the workers at the nearby Klausmann Brewery, which we looked at…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Tesson and Courtois Streets, Carondelet
Jumping down to the south and starting at the old Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks and Tesson Street, we now head north again on Pennsylvania Avenue in what is sometimes referred to as the Patch neighborhood, though many lifelong residents have told me they have never heard of that name. It’s usually just referred to, and…