One solution developers took for the ungainly long lots along Magnolia Avenue was to simply cut through a second street in between Lawrence and Thurman, named Magnolia Place (we’ll look at it in two days), and create a series of much smaller than normal lots with Arts and Crafts bungalows. It’s really a special little…
Tag: Arts and Crafts Style
Arsenal Street Between Louisiana and South Compton Avenues
Heading east on Arsenal Street from Louisiana Avenue in Tower Grove East, we see more of the trat housing along the busy corridor. We move past the church that was never built past the first story; one of the walls is leaning so I suspect they never built the upper stories due to settling of…
Tamm Avenue Between Wade and Lloyd Avenues
Continuing south past St. James the Greater, we can see the original church below, which I suspect was one of those standard rural school-sanctuary combos we see throughout the Archdiocese. And I think we see the storefront above on the right below in the historic photo down the hill from the church. There are many…
Tamm Avenue between Oakland and Clayton Avenues
I realized I have never looked at Tamm Avenue, the famous street that passes through Dogtown just south of Forest Park. Of course, there were clay and coal mines in the area, but really, according to my sources, they were mainly east of Hampton Avenue. But not all, and one mine, the Gittens Mine, which…
Normandy, Part Three
On the west side of Florissant Road, opposite St. Vincent Children’s Services, which is again another land donation of the Lucas-Hunt family, we have a row of houses from the 1920s and 30s. There is a broad mix of houses on what is the eastern edge of the Normandy Heights addition, with almost Arts and…
Normandy, Part One
Normandy is one of the most interesting parts of St. Louis County, and I have created a tag for future and past posts of the area, including the municipal boundaries of the modern city but also areas part of the historic area owned by the Lucas Family. Charles Lucas, and more importantly his son John…
Former St. Engelbert’s Campus
One of the more popular former Catholic parishes that I’ve posted about before is the former St. Engelbert’s on Shreve Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. It might also win the informal award of “Largest Catholic church building most people have never heard of in St. Louis,” as well. It’s huge. I was poking around on…
Lotus Avenue from Union Boulevard to Kingshighway
Crossing over Union Boulevard, we switch over to Lotus Avenue, which is one way to the east in the Kingsway West neighborhood. Dominated by the former DePaul Hospital, the area is dominated by extremely long blocks that stretch all the way from Union to Kingshighway, such as Wabada Avenue, one block to the north, which…
Texas Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
I realized I had never looked at the blocks just north of Cherokee Street in Benton Park West, which have seen some redevelopment. First up is Texas Avenue. Most of the buildings are from the early Twentieth Century, and vary from one story bungalows to four-family apartment buildings. But there are also Arts and Crafts…
Around Wabash Avenue
I found Wabash Avenue recently, which is one of the last major north-south arteries in St. Louis down by the River des Peres. There are a series of streets that come off the avenue to the east and west. Interstate 44, above and obscured by the trees, cuts through the area. The area is quiet…