Update: The houses above were 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 hadn’t driven down North Market Street in a while, and started at Jefferson and worked west towards Spring Street. The houses above, right at Jefferson,…
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St. Louis Place, Slipping Away Some More
Update: Everything seen above was cleared or 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.
Back to 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. It drives me crazy to see these beautiful houses sitting like this, held hostage by McKee first (he’s apparently toast now) and the Quixotic quest for the Defense Mapping Agency….
I Love What You’ve Done with the Place
Update: The roof collapsed in 2014. The house continued to deteriorate even more in June of 2018 and the winter of 2019. The house was demolished by July of 2019. I love what Paul McKee has done with this property. It didn’t look like this when he first bought it with one of his shell…
Frame Houses, Old North
Some of the oldest houses in any neighborhood will be the wood-frame houses, such as these clustered around Knapp Street in Old North. Some are occupied, some I remember being occupied, and others have always been vacant. Update: The houses above owned by Paul McKee were gutted by fire set by an arsonist on April…
McKee Finished?
Back when this website first began in 2007, there was a mysterious shell company called Blairmont buying up houses in North St. Louis. They thought no one would notice. Someone did. I used to post “current events” articles back in the day on this site, but tend not to any more. This one is too…
Storefront, 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. This building has changed little since I photographed it above several years ago. It looked like it received new windows recently, but then the owner seems to have given up….
Lone House, Western St. Louis Place
Going… Going… Going… Gone. Update: Eventually cleaned up 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. The rubble sat there for a very long time.
St. Louis Place, Sold Out
Update: Area 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.
Skeletons
Update: many of these wood skeletons still stood as early July of 2018. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. The ruin in the last picture was finally cleared in the winter of 2019-2020.