Thekla is an interesting street name and probably comes from an early saint, which you can read about here. In fact, most of the “east-west” streets are named after women’s given names. As usual, the houses on the first block west of Riverview Boulevard are in styles such as the Arts and Crafts style, as…
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Riverview Boulevard, West Side, Walnut Park West
Riverview Boulevard has been known by many names over the years: Tracy Road or Avenue until 1907, Kingshighway Northwest until 1925 and Partridge Avenue at some point. Regardless, it forms the southeast boundary of Walnut Park West and has been a major artery since the Nineteenth Century, traveling to the northeast where it intersects with…
Sherry Avenue Between Mimika Avenue and Riverview Boulevard, Walnut Park West
Doglegging across Mimika Avenue (whose name is an interesting choice–was it from a daughter of the Jennings family or the people in Indonesia?), we look at the block of Sherry closer to Riverview. The housing is much older than the block to the west, and much of it is in worse condition or abandoned. A…
Sherry Avenue Between Goodfellow Boulevard and Mimika Avenue, Walnut Park West
I realized that I had never looked at Walnut Park West, which is nestled far up in the northern reaches of the city. Bounded by Interstate 70 on the southwest, Riverview Boulevard on the southeast, West Florissant Avenue on the northeast and the city limits on the northwest, Goodfellow Boulevard cuts through just to the…
McClellan Heights, Davenport, Iowa
If there’s a neighborhood in Davenport that reminds me the most of Clayton, it’s McClellan Heights, to the east of Prospect Park, which we looked at yesterday. And perhaps, also like the Moorlands, that large development of Clayton that lies on the southeast side of that St. Louis suburb, though McClellan Heights lacks the large…
Prospect Park, Davenport, Iowa
Heading east of downtown Davenport, we reach Prospect Park and environs. Centered around an eponymous greenspace, the area grew up later than Hamburg upriver from older parts of Davenport. There is still no levee protecting the city, so there are excellent views of the Mississippi River from the neighborhood. There are relatively simple houses on…
Warwick Avenue
Warwick Avenue is a short little street in between Euclid and North Kingshighway just north of MLK, and just south of Cupples School. But it’s an interesting street of houses built right after World War II, with nice bungalows that you typically see in St. Louis Hills.
Jefferson Avenue Around Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Charles
After finishing up looking at Seventh Street, we returned back to our starting point, which was Immanuel Lutheran Church, which lies on Jefferson Avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets. I actually looked at Jefferson Avenue in St. Charles back in May of 2019, but this time I wanted to focus on more of the area…
Seventh Street Between Lewis and Jefferson Streets, St. Charles
Heading back south on Seventh Street in St. Charles, we see a wide variety of housing styles, including what looks to have been a Cape Cod before receiving several additions. While there are Queen Anne style houses in brick, there are also earlier houses in what could best be described as Greek Revival or Federalist….
Vermont Avenue Between Robert Avenue and Blow Street, Carondelet
Please join me on July 24 at 6:30 at the Central Library in downtown St. Louis for a lecture about my new book. Please register here. Passing north of Robert Avenue, we spot some ancient gems, such as the one on the right above, which is sadly abandoned, and the one below, with a little…