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…
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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….
Penrose, July 2022, Part One, North Newstead Avenue and Environs
I’ll be honest; I got totally lost in the Penrose on Saturday. I really love the neighborhood because it’s so hidden away and so few people know about. I wanted to get back and see how it was doing, and show off more of its great, well-kept streets and tidy streets. But I don’t know…
The South Side, Peoria
My trip up to Central Illinois in mid June took me to all sorts of random surprises, including several new churches and other sights, and that is why I enjoy doing what I do. It is often totally random. But sometimes my totally random path takes me through neighborhoods that tell stories that I don’t…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 67: South Broadway Above the Bluffs Between Nebraska Avenue and Mount Pleasant Street
The Beauty of Dutchtown Series continues with No. 68. Moving north of Nebraska Avenue, we see a four-family that has lost its front porch, and the subsequent remodeling. The next four-family is interesting; it was clearly a single family house with a pyramid roof sitting back on its lot and then the developer of the…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 66: South Broadway Above the Bluffs Between Walsh Street and Nebraska Avenue
Continuing north across Walsh Street, we see some more modern houses, and we look to the past, when on the east side on the bluffs, one of the more interesting and harrowing train stations in the St. Louis region. The Iron Mountain Railroad went far to the south to the Arcadia Valley, passing through here….