Moving a little to the southwest, I took a look at the houses on Northland Avenue between Euclid and Marcus avenues. I definitely see the irony of how just a couple of miles north on Euclid Avenue, after looking at its path in the Central West End a couple of weeks ago, can make such…
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Labadie Avenue, The Western Greater Ville
For some reason I got on this kick to explore the western side of The Greater Ville neighborhood. Starting at the intersection of Marcus and Labadie, where Cote Brilliante Presbyterian sits on the northeast corner, I headed east. I think the Greater Ville has some of the most interesting an idiosyncratic architecture in the city,…
Dodier Street Between Parnell Avenue and North 25th Street
Apparently I have never photographed the sad and depopulated stretch of Dodier Street just to the east of Parnell Avenue, which is the main artery that peals off from North Jefferson Avenue (which becomes a quiet two lanes street to the west of here). I hadn’t realized just how bad of shape this twelve-family had…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 91: Meramec Street Between Michigan and Nebraska Avenues, North Side, Revisited
The next three blocks have been looked at in the past; I looked at the block between Michigan and Minnesota in October of 2021, Minnesota and Pennsylvania at the same time, and Pennsylvania and Nebraska shortly thereafter. I photographed the corner store above back in October of 2008 (last photo). The first block varies from…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 88: Meramec Street Between Grand Boulevard and Louisiana Avenue, North Side
We left off on the last Beauty of Dutchtown Series with No. 86. On a whim during one of the fog events on an early Saturday I photographed the entirety of the north side of Meramec Street, the main east-west artery in Dutchtown. I’ve photographed some sections before, but it is worthwhile to check in…
Gustine Avenue Between Chippewa Street and Gravois Avenue, West Side
I’ve heard it referred to as the Wedge, but anyway, the triangular area of the official city neighborhood of Tower Grove South bounded by Grand on the east, Gravois on the north, and Chippewa on the south has a character all its own. I’ve looked at it briefly in the past back in December of…
Small Houses
I saw a bunch of small houses recently that I thought were interesting. The first one has a sad ending, as when I photographed it the first time in my look at Virginia Avenue in Dutchtown (eleventh photograph down) it was still in good condition. I don’t know what happened. Sometimes I forget that a…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 69: South Grand Boulevard Between Liermann Avenue and Keokuk Street, West Side
I’m usually white-knuckling my steering wheel as I’m driving north or south on South Grand Boulevard, having picked up my carryout at Banh Mi So #1. But recently I finally decided to take a closer look at the buildings on the west side of the street of the major thoroughfare that cuts through the heart…
Two Churches in the Land Between the Rivers
We looked at two churches in that flat bottomland sandwiched between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers that forms an almost peninsula-like eastern tail of St. Charles County. The first one, Trinity Lutheran Church at the intersection of Highway 94 and Church Road, dates from 1876, when it was calved off from Emmanuel Lutheran. The church…
Natural Bridge Avenue Between North Taylor and Cora Avenues, South Side
Moving along to the west, the streetscape past a short row of storefronts is more of the same for what we would expect in the Greater Ville, expect we are along a major street. For whatever reason, the grassy median has now transformed to a broad swath of concrete, and it is bare and white….