I really love this amazing aerial photograph of the Lemp Brewery, a decade after International Shoe had taken over. You can see how the shoe company had already added several floors onto a couple of buildings and altered the smokestack of the third boiler house or power plant to say ISCO. The railyard is still…
Tag: Benton Park
Street Design and Crashes, Arsenal Street and Interstate 55.
The recent crash of an automobile into St. Louis institution Gus’ Pretzel’s Shop was logical. I’ll explain why. Vehicles come whipping off of southbound Interstate 55 every thirty seconds or less, and the vast majority of them make little to no effort to stop, making the assumption that no one will be coming from westbound…
Foundations, Benton Park
Alerted to a recent demolition in Benton Park, which is rare due to its historic district status, I went by to take a look. The property, owned by an infamous slumlord, was once a corner store with an alley dwelling whose collapse I covered back in May of 2019. It was in bad shape before…
Former Marian Hospital
The northern neighbor of the Feickert-Lemp Mansion in the William Weible Addition was also an Italianate style house, with a similar appearance to it as well as the Hoppe Mansion on the west side of the street. While property records in the Assessor’s office shows the land was independently owned, it’s curious that they are…
Lemp Avenue Between Utah and Arsenal Streets
We’ve looked at Lemp Avenue between Cherokee and Utah streets before, so heading north, we pass by buildings that face the east-west streets. On the east side is Cherokee Park, formerly the location of Lemp Park. We cross over Withnell Avenue, which was the central street of John Withnell’s Addition, who bought, if I remember…
Lemp Avenue Across from the Lemp Brewery
Heading north from South Broadway is an interesting row of buildings, starting first with this building that now houses the music venue Off Broadway. There is an anachronistic Lemp Beer sign on the south side of the building. I actually looked at the house below before in April of 2022. Next is a large black…
Lemp Avenue Between Pestalozzi and Lynch Streets, West Side
Heading north past Pestalozzi Street, we see this interesting Italianate row, which has six front doors, indicating that it was once a series of flats. But then the street wall goes back to three story Second Empire houses, which is typical for this area. Along with two story versions. This house below on the right…
Lemp Avenue Between Arsenal and Pestalozzi Streets, West Side
I could have sworn I photographed this stretch of Lemp Avenue before, but apparently not. It’s a beautiful stretch of mostly Second Empire houses, with a few other styles thrown in. Crittenden Street, which is much narrower and actually ceases to exist in Tower Grove East, passes through here. It was always practically an alley….
Utah Street Between Missouri and Wisconsin Avenues, North Side
Wow, things sure have been changing along Utah Street in Benton Park! The corner storefront above, which had been baby blue for a long time, has been rehabbed. Amazingly, the ghost sign was preserved when the presumably latex paint was removed. Great job! And this little duplex, when I wasn’t paying attention, was rehabbed a…
Halloween at the Lemp Brewery
I went to the Lemp Brewery haunted house in mid October, which gave me the chance to take some bad photos of the place at night. It’s pretty fun to walk around the place at night, with lights giving a nice perspective on the architecture. You enter the cellars under the brew house, and then…