Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Fellow explorers and I have been eternally fascinated by our so-called HUD Houses, built in a good faith effort to revitalize neighborhoods. They’re coming down, demolished for the new NGA…
Tag: Northside TIF
Strassberger’s Conservatory, Vanished
Update: The hole was replaced by a historic house moved for the NGA. It looks like an alien spaceship came down and stole the old Strassberger’s Conservatory, a relic of the thriving German American community in St. Louis Place one hundred years ago.
Ruins Week Alumnus, St. Louis Place
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Originally featured two years ago; they don’t get around to cleaning stuff up very fast up this way.
St. Louis Place, Late September 2016
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. These two houses will be demolished soon; they would go for hundreds of thousands in Soulard. But they were doomed by being built north of Delmar. This house will survive,…
Theodore Rapp Row, St. Louis Place
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Noted architect Theodore Rapp designed this row of small bungalows, each originally possessing a small hipped roof with alternating one or two pyramid roof ornaments. Each one is now slightly…
Lost Potential, Not Failure, North Market Street and Environs
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. I have a different attitude compared to most people, I realized. I don’t see these buildings as losses (though they will be demolished for the NGA), but rather lost potential….
Some Things Never Change
Update: As of the summer of 2023, little has changed at the compound shown above other than the fence being painted red (fifth photo). The survivalist compound is doing fine on N. Market Street. Update: The gas station was demolished in the winter of 2024. The vacant gas station at St. Louis Avenue and Parnell,…
Oh Yeah, Real People Still Live in St. Louis Place
Update: The entire area seen in these pictures was cleared for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Earlier this February, I came across some strange sights in the footprint of McKee’s failed Northside project, where the city is now…
The Bridge is Just the Beginning
Not likely.
1700 Block of Palm, Old North
These Second Empire houses are holding up well; they could easily be rehabbed despite being abandoned. This one could probably be, too, if Paul McKee would sell it to a rehabber. I’ve asked this question numerous times, but it still has never been answered. Why does he still own it?