Heading east of Oregon Avenue, we continue on Osage Street in Dutchtown. There are rows of bungalows in a sort of Arts and Crafts style with jerkinhead roofs. Then there’s this interesting building, which at first glance looks like a ranch house but is actually an apartment building that is L-shaped, with two units on…
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Iowa Avenue Between Chippewa and Keokuk Streets
Heading south of Chippewa Avenue into Dutchtown, there are more of the standard four families and single family houses. In particular, I liked the mixture of stock terracotta used to fill in the blind window above on the second floor. Wood cornices are replaces with brick and metal.
Vermont Avenue Between Blow Street and Loughborough Avenue, Carondelet
The next block is amazing between Blow and Loughborough. Clearly the result of a planned development by a single builder in the 1920s, this is a unique ensemble of houses in the immediate area of the Blow School and the old YMCA are a mixture of Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts.
Vermont Avenue Between Robert Avenue and Blow Street, Carondelet
Please join me on July 24 at 6:30 at the Central Library in downtown St. Louis for a lecture about my new book. Please register here. Passing north of Robert Avenue, we spot some ancient gems, such as the one on the right above, which is sadly abandoned, and the one below, with a little…
Vermont Avenue Between Koeln and Robert Avenues, Carondelet
Please join me on July 24 at 6:30 at the Central Library in downtown St. Louis for a lecture about my new book. Please register here. North of Koeln Avenue, which is the Germanish spelling of Cologne, we first past by Lyon School, which we’ve looked at before and then we see a more diverse…
Vermont Avenue Between Schirmer Street and Koeln Avenue, Carondelet
Please join me on July 24 at 6:30 at the Central Library in downtown St. Louis for a lecture about my new book. Please register here. Moving north of Schirmer Street, the housing stock changed over to brick almost exclusively, with a wide range of styles from the 1880s to early 1900. It is interesting…
After the Tornado: The Greater Ville, Revisited
The Greater Ville was hit hard, so badly, and much worse than I conveyed three weeks ago. The northern part of the neighborhood was largely intact, with a little bit of abandonment, and now almost every house has been damaged, and many completely destroyed. Below is Marcus Street, on the west side of Western Lutheran…
After the Tornado: Skinker-DeBaliviere
The Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, which is bounded by Forest Park on the south, the city limits on the west, Delmar Boulevard on the north and DeBaliviere Avenue on the east, also saw damage from the tornado. The tornado and high winds primarily struck the southeast corner of the neighborhood, and the wreckage ranged from the collapse…
Pasadena Boulevard, Northwoods
Pasadena Boulevard follows the old right-of-way of the streetcar line that comes up out of Pine Lawn to the east. Just to the north of the park above was Minoma, the Italianate country estate of Jefferson Kearny. It is no longer extant. We enter Northwoods, which was the giant Edgewood survey, which you can see…
Pine Lawn
Pine Lawn is one of the many small inner ring suburbs just outside the boundaries of the City of St. Louis along Natural Bridge Road and Jennings Station Road forms a north-south “spine,” so to speak. The name comes from the estate, one of many out this way, of Charles Clark, of which only the…