Blase Avenue east of North Broadway has an interesting mix of multi-family buildings and unique houses. The two houses below basically have the same massing and footprint, but they are all unique in ornamentation.
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Baden in Winter #10, Just North of the Viaduct
There’s a whole cluster of buildings just north of the train tracks at the southern end of Baden and North Broadway. But it is so loud, and such an undesirable place to invest, that the buildings are going vacant, their owners desperately trying to sell them. This building is still occupied by a bar, but…
Baden in Winter #9, Church Road #3
Towards the south end of Church Road are some incredibly important examples of wood frame tract duplexes. They must be very old, as they are wood, probably from before annexation by the City of St. Louis. It is curious that one is in brick, perhaps having replaced an original wood one. They are alternately occupied…
Baden in Winter #8, Church Road #2
Then all of the sudden, we hit a row of modest and well-maintained Modernist ranch homes. But they’re mixed in between abandonment, including some small in-fill homes. Update: The two houses on the right above were demolished by July of 2019. There are also these unique wood frame one-story duplexes, some of which are occupied….
Baden in Winter #7, Church Road #1
Church Road south of Bittner Street is where we start to really see the good, bad and the ugly. It’s a fascinating mix of wood frame houses, in styles that are usually in brick in most of the city. But these wood frame houses are not doing well, nowadays. This cool Second Empire-Italianate hybrid in…
Baden in Winter #4, 800 Block of Bittner Street
Moving away from the sound of traffic on Broadway, Bittner Street offers some nice, well-kept houses, with most of the buildings occupied. Unlike across Broadway, where the houses are wood frame, these are all solid brick buildings.
Baden in Winter #3, The Car Lot House
This cool little Queen Anne Style house sits just a few feet from North Broadway, and still possesses much of its original millwork, which became much less expensive in the Late Nineteenth Century. It now functions as the office of a car lot next door.
Baden in Winter #2, Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church
Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church is a beautiful Gothic Revival structure, sitting high on a hill with rolling fields heading out from it in several directions. It merged with the former Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 1993 when that parish closed; this church is now formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Cross….