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…
Tag: Arts and Crafts Style
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…
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…