Over the next six days, starting today, we’ll look at areas in the footprint of the Northside TIF, and see the effects McKee’s purchases and land banking have stalled redevelopment and also accelerated decline, as properties he’s purchased have gone vacant and been demolished. We’ll start in JeffVanderLou, driving up Webster in the two photos…
Tag: Arts and Crafts Style
Emma and Lucille Avenues Between Mimika Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard, Walnut Park West
We save what I found to be the most interesting part of Walnut Park, which is actually older but further away from downtown St. Louis. This is the Jennings Heights Addition, from 1888, almost twenty years older than the West Walnut Park subdivision to the southeast that we looked at previously. As can be seen…
Thekla Avenue Between Mimika Avenue and Riverview Boulevard, Walnut Park West
Thekla is an interesting street name and probably comes from an early saint, which you can read about here. In fact, most of the “east-west” streets are named after women’s given names. As usual, the houses on the first block west of Riverview Boulevard are in styles such as the Arts and Crafts style, as…
Harney Avenue Between Park Lane and Mimika Avenue, Walnut Park West
Harney Avenue is named after William S. Harney, a St. Louisan who served in the military but who also had some loyalty issues during the Civil War, apparently. It’s an interesting block, which again, makes me suspect that while this is the West Walnut Park Addition laid out by Julius Pitzman in 1906, makes me…
Park Lane Between Harney and West Florissant Avenues, Walnut Park West
Formerly Butler Avenue, the street that bisects many of the streets in Walnut Park West is now named Park Lane, no doubt a result of the platting of the North Pointe neighborhood across West Florissant Avenue. While most houses are built facing the northeast/southwest facing streets, there are a handful of homes built on the…
Riverview Boulevard, West Side, Walnut Park West
Riverview Boulevard has been known by many names over the years: Tracy Road or Avenue until 1907, Kingshighway Northwest until 1925 and Partridge Avenue at some point. Regardless, it forms the southeast boundary of Walnut Park West and has been a major artery since the Nineteenth Century, traveling to the northeast where it intersects with…
Sherry Avenue Between Mimika Avenue and Riverview Boulevard, Walnut Park West
Doglegging across Mimika Avenue (whose name is an interesting choice–was it from a daughter of the Jennings family or the people in Indonesia?), we look at the block of Sherry closer to Riverview. The housing is much older than the block to the west, and much of it is in worse condition or abandoned. A…
Sherry Avenue Between Goodfellow Boulevard and Mimika Avenue, Walnut Park West
I realized that I had never looked at Walnut Park West, which is nestled far up in the northern reaches of the city. Bounded by Interstate 70 on the southwest, Riverview Boulevard on the southeast, West Florissant Avenue on the northeast and the city limits on the northwest, Goodfellow Boulevard cuts through just to the…
McClellan Heights, Davenport, Iowa
If there’s a neighborhood in Davenport that reminds me the most of Clayton, it’s McClellan Heights, to the east of Prospect Park, which we looked at yesterday. And perhaps, also like the Moorlands, that large development of Clayton that lies on the southeast side of that St. Louis suburb, though McClellan Heights lacks the large…
Prospect Park, Davenport, Iowa
Heading east of downtown Davenport, we reach Prospect Park and environs. Centered around an eponymous greenspace, the area grew up later than Hamburg upriver from older parts of Davenport. There is still no levee protecting the city, so there are excellent views of the Mississippi River from the neighborhood. There are relatively simple houses on…