We’re almost to the end of the portion of Gravois in Bevo, as we approach the viaduct that takes the railroad over the street. Interestingly, there are a large amount of old wood frame houses surviving, often concealed by later brick storefronts built out to the sidewalk line. I like the very strange almost saltbox-like…
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Gravois Avenue from Ellenwood to Taft Avenues, Bevo
We’ll take one last look at the building on the southwest corner, and then continue on northeast up Gravois Avenue. We’ve actually looked at this building before because it was once attached to a movie theater to the right, back in October of 2020. The newer mid-Twentieth Century buildings such as the one below replaced…
Gravois Avenue from Neosho Street to Ellenwood Avenue, Bevo
But just as we pass by the open spaces left by the demolition for parking lots, we discover that historic buildings intact for the next block. Terracotta companies mass produced designs that are seen all over the city. So while individual buildings are unique, they can often have the same “flavor” as others throughout the…
Gravois Avenue from Morgan Ford Road to Neosho Street, Bevo
Moving past the intersection of Morgan Ford and Delor, we hit a stretch of Gravois that is substantially marred by demolition for parking lots, While the Bevo Mill carefully follows the contours of the wedge-shaped block where it sits, ironically there is a giant parking lot behind it that once served the popular restaurant. Across…
Gravois Avenue Between Duke Street and Morgan Ford Road, Bevo
Let’s pass by Duke Street, which I have to admit I’d never heard of before because there are so many short one or two block long streets in this part of Bevo that branch off Gravois Avenue. I think it is probably due to the relatively rugged terrain of the old Christy Estate. But as…
Gravois Avenue Between Gertrude Avenue and Duke Street, Bevo
Continuing on past the large house at the corner of Gertrude Avenue, we see more of the intact street wall along Gravois Avenue. Brightly colored storefronts and restaurants opened by Bosnian immigrants begin to appear, showing how the neighborhood was redeveloped starting in the 1990s. Then we reach Eichelberger Avenue, which is actually a relatively…
Gravois Avenue From Bates Street to Gertrude Avenue, Bevo
Gravois Avenue in Bevo has one of the best preserved commercial strips in the city, and I took a stroll along it a couple weekends ago. Further up Gravois, southwest and northeast of Grand Boulevard, the avenue is scarred by parking lots for car dealerships, while in Bevo there are only a couple, thank the…
Bates Street North of St. Matthew’s Cemetery
While St. Matthew’s Cemetery, which I looked at back in January of 2021, was distant from the central city for much of its history, it still needed housing for its workers, and there are many older wood frame houses on Bates Street north of the burial ground that I suspect once housed its employees, such…
Bingham Avenue East of Morgan Ford, Bevo
Back behind Oak Hill School, high up on the hill above the Chippewa Avenue underpass, is Bingham Avenue. There is a row of simple houses that I suspect were built up out this way a long time ago when there were clay and coal mines. The name actually come from the Bingham family, whose plantation…
Oak Hill Elementary School
Named after the heights that were owned by the Russell family and contained their clay and coal mines (their estate was to the north), Oak Hill was designed by William B. Ittner and opened in 1907. As is typical of many of Ittner’s schools, the building has a Northern European Sixteenth Century influence to it,…