Around the former site of the House of the Good Shepherd, the land is rugged, with dramatic drop-offs and massive retaining walls. There are also at times huge differentiations between the street and the front doors of buildings, as you can see in these photos. There is also a preponderance of multi-family housing.
Tag: Arts and Crafts Style
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Oleatha Avenue Between Oak Hill and Roger Place
You never know what sort of surprises you’ll find when looking around the streets of St. Louis, and in this case I found these unique porches added to the fronts of otherwise common houses. A little bit of a mix of Spanish and Tudor influences, there were only about four or five of these in…
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Oleatha Avenue Between Bent and Oak Hill Avenues
Tower Grove South was still being built up in the southwest corner well into the 1930s, as these Cape Cod houses attest. There are also Gingerbread style houses, as well, which were being built to the southwest in the rapidly expanding St. Louis Hills neighborhood. This subdivision is the Russell’s Second Addition, and while it…
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Phillips Avenue East of Oak Hill Avenue
Phillips Avenue is another street that alludes to the early roots of Tower Grove South, with many wood frame houses from the Nineteenth Century, mixed in with early Twentieth Century suburban style homes. I have always been intrigued by the small house below, sitting all the way back on the lot. I have to believe…
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Beck Avenue East of Morgan Ford
Let’s start looking at the neighborhood that rose up on the land the Russells subdivided, cashing out their land after it could no longer be exploited for its natural resources. Beck Avenue is typical of many streets on the south side of Tower Grove South, which is made up of small tract homes for the…
Former Calvin Christy Residence and Taft Avenue, Bevo
Thanks to a reader’s helpful book recommendation, I was able to learn much more about the area around Meramec, Gravois and Chippewa, and the rich history of an area that I was already exploring. I had recently learned about the Calvin Christy manor house, which is now a nursing home, having going through a period…
Morgan Ford Between Gannett and Chippewa Streets, Bevo
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…
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…