We’ve looked at the exterior of Our Redeemer before, back in October of 2020 when we were walking around Benton Park West. But there’s a beautiful carved wood chancel in the apse of the church, complete with a sculpture in the round of Christ. It’s quite beautiful.
Tag: Benton Park West
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Juniata and Arsenal Streets
Crossing Juniata Street in Benton Park West, there is this small corner store that has looked like this as long as I can remember. There are more of the standard houses that you’d be used to seeing in the neighborhood, including a Second Empire home, as seen above, though the dormer has been rebuilt. I’m…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Wyoming and Juniata Streets
Crossing over Wyoming Street in Benton Park West, we see this massive corner store building, which certainly had a large space above for the family who owned the business below. It even seems to have had a substantial living space on the third floor. This building was most likely built for and lived in by…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Utah and Wyoming Streets
Crossing Utah Street, we continue north up Pennsylvania Avenue in Benton Park West, looking at the houses and apartment buildings that grew up after streetcar service arrived from downtown. It’s interesting to see how houses have been altered, whether a metal cornice has been removed, or when a porch has probably been altered. Then there…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
Surprisingly, I had never looked at Pennsylvania Avenue in Benton Park West, so I sought to fix that recently, heading north from its intersection with Cherokee Street. There has been some rehabbing going, unfortunately with some people who don’t know where they’re doing, as evidenced by the gray paint. House prices have also gone way…
Ferdinand Herold House Not Doing Well
I was alerted by a fellow lover of St. Louis history and architecture that the Ferdinand Herold Mansion on South Jefferson has been boarded up and abandoned after a failed attempt at rehabbing the stately house. It is currently on the market but no one has bought it yet. Unfortunately, the house has now been…
Nebraska Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets, Revisited
I looked at this block of Nebraska Avenue back in March of 2020, and it’s interesting to see how things have changed. The four-family above has been renovated to some extent, and the building below, which was a burned out shell, has now been rehabbed and should be inhabited sometime soon. The building below looks…
Oregon Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
Heading north of Cherokee Street on Oregon Avenue, we see this simple house above, which intrigues me; it clearly once had a front porch which had been lost. Then we see some of those one story bungalows with the huge window in the front that my friends years ago named “Cyclops Houses.” I think the…
California Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
Passing by another parking lot which is usually empty, we head up California Avenue, which has older houses, mostly in the Second Empire style. This first building is one of those interesting Mansard roofed examples where the original fenestration of the Second Empire is giving way to later styles such as the Romanesque Revival, which…
Iowa Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
Due to a large parking lot that demolished a large number of houses, the block of Iowa Avenue north of Cherokee Street is relatively short. There is this interesting office building, which pops up in the middle of the block. Then there is a row of houses with the last tinges of Romanesque Revival style…