Update: I went back up this way again in late summer of 2019. Last fall, I did a post entitled “North Up Blair Avenue,” which looked at a cross section of the neighborhoods that were affected by the construction of Interstate 70, but that also show signs of rebounding. Beginning above, a house long admired…
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Winkelmann Mansion Property For Sale, and Other Follies
Update: Construction on the “green” houses started back up again in mid to late 2019. Oh hey, if you’d like to buy the vacant lot at the corner of St. Louis Avenue and 20th Street, it’s for sale, minus the historic mansion that Paul McKee let collapse and be demolished back in 2013. Meanwhile, another…
4,000th Post
3,999 posts ago, I started this website, back in May of 2007 (the twelfth anniversary is coming up in a couple of months), and while technically a few posts have been deleted for various reasons due to redundancy, or whatnot, I thought it might be interesting to check in on what has happened to the…
McKee’s Legacy, Winter 2019
Update: The house was demolished by July of 2019. The beautiful house at the corner of Blair and Palm is still owned by Northside, and it continues to fall apart (you can see it in the second photo here, and in this post). I assume it will eventually be torn down, as there is no…
Old Cass Avenue Bank
I can’t believe there were no plans for the former Greyhound bus terminal when the new combination bus and railroad station opened down on Clark Street. The former Cass Avenue Bank was just left to rot, broken into and increasingly dilapidated. Another location is in similar peril, further west on Cass.
More Collapses
Update: The house above has been demolished, as expected. Sadly, there have been some more building collapses in the last month, one due to no one’s fault, and two due to ongoing neglect and lack of investment. Above, the front porch of one of the ill-fated row of houses built on top of a quarry…
Recent Collapses
Update: The house has now been demolished. I know many people told me they could care less that the SaLees Kennard House was in danger of being demolished, since she was the daughter of one of the founders of the Veiled Prophet Parade. Well guess what? You got your wish! The house has now suffered…
Northside Wall, Former Pruit-Igoe Site
Update: The walls were blown over by strong winds on December 27, 2018. It has now been replaced by another wall made of insulation, and after the building permits for the first hospital expired, the Board of Aldermen approved similar tax incentives. They’re supposed to be building a three-bed urgent care hospital on the newly…
Burn Out in JeffVanderLou
Update: The minivan was replaced by an abandoned trailer filled with old tires in November of 2018. A year ago, these houses on Laflin Avenue in JeffVanderLou were in acceptable shape, even though they had been abandoned for a long time. I was shocked to drive by in the last week of August to discover…
JeffVanderLou, Early July 2018
Update: I went back in November of 2018 to see how things were doing; I also revisited the area in late summer of 2019. Eleven years now I’ve been photographing JeffVanderLou, particularly east of Grand Boulevard, and perhaps what is most striking is how little has changed, and if anything has changed, it is always…