I don’t know why but I decided to continue on San Francisco Avenue, ignoring the “Street Not Thru” sign with a cavalier attitude. There was a wide variety of houses from many different time periods, which I found interesting considering much of my journey had large blocks of houses built in tracts. But there was…
Tag: Cape Cod
San Francisco Avenue Between Red Bud and Clarence Avenues, Penrose
The next block is still the 4200 block but we see something surprising. The houses are several decades older, dating from 1908. And we see the appearance of some interesting houses, with dramatic and dominant shed roofs over their porches, built in 1923. We cross over Turner Avenue and enter the 4200 block of West…
What is a Cape Cod House?
Keen-eyed readers might have noticed I sneaked a “Cape Cod” tag into my site a few years ago. But what exactly is a Cape Cod styled house? It is the most basic of houses in Western architecture: four walls creating a rectangle with a steep gabled roof above. Along the long side of the rectangle,…
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….
5600 Block of Labadie, Wells-Goodfellow, Summer of 2026
I specifically set out to try and find another block to explore other than the 5600 block of Labadie Avenue, but then I went and drove down it anyway. The first part to the west I first explored back in March of 2017. It’s in rough shape. Most of the buildings, some of which were…
Alabama Avenue Between Holly Hills Avenue and Iron Street
Crossing Holly Hills Avenue, we near the end of our trip up Alabama Avenue in Carondelet, as the interstate will stop us from proceeding further. There continues to be a mix of styles, showing the slow development of the neighborhood. This is the last house, at Iron Street, where the interstate cuts through and ends…
Alabama Avenue Between Blow Street and Loughborough Avenue
This is where it gets interesting, as there is a group of Gingerbread and Tudor Revival houses, similar to what we saw one block over on Vermont Avenue. I suspect there was a large tract of undeveloped land that came open in the 1920s. We then make it to Loughborough Avenue.
Alabama Avenue Between Primm Street and Robert Avenue
I realized that I have looked at all of the main north-south streets in Carondelet with the exception of Alabama Avenue, so I went down to the southernmost block and proceeded north. The first part, leaving behind Primm Street, has light industrial with a series of warehouses and other buildings. Then there is some in-fill,…
West D Street From North 11th Street to West C Street Via North 8th Street, Belleville
Continuing along in our walk through northwest Belleville near the old Stag Brewery, we see our first of what I would consider a true Cape Cod, the iconic building style that has its roots going back centuries in America and Europe. It is sort of the standard “house” in Western Civilization. But we see more…
Thekla Avenue Between Mimika Avenue and Riverview Boulevard, Walnut Park West
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…