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…
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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…
Hamburg, Davenport, Iowa, Part Two
Continuing our look at the Hamburg neighborhood in Davenport that we started yesterday, we look at another amazing Italianate house. What is interesting is that there does not seem to be much of a Second Empire phase in the city’s architecture, or on the other side of the river. There certainly is plenty of Second…
Hamburg, Davenport, Iowa, Part One
We headed down to the Hamburg neighborhood in Davenport, which has recently seen extensive rehabbing and restoration of its historic houses. The neighborhood is obviously named after the German Hanseatic city of Hamburg, which still is one of the most important port cities in the world. Apparently many of the early residents of the area…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Wyoming and Juniata Streets
Crossing over Wyoming Street in Benton Park West, we see this massive corner store building, which certainly had a large space above for the family who owned the business below. It even seems to have had a substantial living space on the third floor. This building was most likely built for and lived in by…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Utah and Wyoming Streets
Crossing Utah Street, we continue north up Pennsylvania Avenue in Benton Park West, looking at the houses and apartment buildings that grew up after streetcar service arrived from downtown. It’s interesting to see how houses have been altered, whether a metal cornice has been removed, or when a porch has probably been altered. Then there…