This is where it gets interesting, as there is a group of Gingerbread and Tudor Revival houses, similar to what we saw one block over on Vermont Avenue. I suspect there was a large tract of undeveloped land that came open in the 1920s. We then make it to Loughborough Avenue.
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Alabama Avenue Between Robert Avenue and Blow Street
We turn the corner to continue up Alabama Avenue. We continue to see many fascinating wood frame buildings, which are so common in Carondelet and what I like so much about this neighborhood: the survivors. These in particular are perhaps the oldest on the block, and were built before street grading occurred with the annexation…
North Up Blair Avenue, Hyde Park, May 2026, Part Four
I always enjoy the moment when Blair starts heading up the hill towards the Bissell Stand Pipe and the houses sit high up on elevated earthen plinths on the left and right sides of the street. I’ve always liked this extremely old wood frame house below. I still love the Bissell tower, which is one…
North Up Blair Avenue, Hyde Park, May 2026, Part Three
Continuing north up Blair in Hyde Park, we see a Gingerbread house and then the styles go back to what we would expect to see in the neighborhood. Windsor Park was a former quarry, which I’ve talked about before in the past. This little church is still in great condition. But there’s a lot of…
North Up Blair Avenue, Hyde Park, May 2026, Part Two
At Salisbury, we continue on past the fire station, which has been there for over a century, though the one below is not the original. The park is probably the original topography of the land. It starts to get very leafy north of the park as we continue up Blair Avenue. There have been many…
Dale and Spring Avenues, Old Orchard, Webster Groves
We next turned into the residential streets to the north of the commercial strip along Big Bend in the Old Orchard area. As was typical of suburban neighborhood movements in the late Nineteenth Century, and as can be seen in Julius Pitzman’s Clifton Heights and Compton Heights additions, there is a move away from rigid…
Armand Place Between California and Ohio Avenues
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be looking at the east-west streets in Fox Park and Compton Hill in between California and South Jefferson Avenues. We’ll start in the south with Armand Place and work our way north, ending with Hickory Avenue in the north. This first block is the Sarpy’s Subdivision…
Neosho Street Between Brannon Avenue and Kingshighway, Part Two
As is typical of all the east-west streets west of Kingshigway, as Neosho gets closer to the major north-south artery, the houses get larger and two story. But they are still single family. This is an interesting development, because as one travels north, multi-family housing begins to predominate as the housing stock gets closer to…
Neosho Street Between Brannon Avenue and Kingshighway, Part One
Heading east from the southern end of Brannon Avenue, we see a rarity on this street, which is a four-family that is more typical of neighborhoods to the east. But then we reach the northern end of the dogleg of Brannon, and the houses turn back to what is typical along this stretch of Neosho….
Neosho Street Between Macklind and Brannon Avenues
Passing by Macklind Avenue, we continue to see Arts and Crafts bungalows and two-families, which we would expect in the 1910s and 20s in St. Louis. There is this curious house style above, which also appears elsewhere on this street, with a simple shed roof covered in red clay tile. But then the houses go…