We end our tour of Vermont Avenue in Carondelet looking at more upscale houses, from the 1890s to the 1920s. But there is still a mix of smaller houses from earlier decades, much like we see in Carondelet. Vermont Avenue takes us through a wide range of different eras, which is what makes the neighborhood…
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Vermont Avenue Between Loughborough Avenue and Mott Street, Carondelet
North of Loughborough, we head back into a more “normal” Carondelet streetscape, with a mix of wood frame and brick housing stock. Eclectic and a mix of houses from across a good fifty to seventy years of construction, there are buildings that run the range from working class to upper class.
Vermont Avenue Between Blow Street and Loughborough Avenue, Carondelet
The next block is amazing between Blow and Loughborough. Clearly the result of a planned development by a single builder in the 1920s, this is a unique ensemble of houses in the immediate area of the Blow School and the old YMCA are a mixture of Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts.
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…
Vermont Avenue Between Koeln and Robert Avenues, 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. North of Koeln Avenue, which is the Germanish spelling of Cologne, we first past by Lyon School, which we’ve looked at before and then we see a more diverse…
Vermont Avenue Between Schirmer Street and Koeln Avenue, 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. Moving north of Schirmer Street, the housing stock changed over to brick almost exclusively, with a wide range of styles from the 1880s to early 1900. It is interesting…
Vermont Avenue Between Primm and Schirmer Streets, 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. In my continuing series of looking at the state streets in Carondelet, I headed up Vermont Avenue from its southern terminus with Ivory and Primm streets all the way…
East Steins Street
Leaving behind Reilly Avenue, we spot the Jacob Steins House on East Steins Street. I wrote about the house and other stone dwellings at St. Louis Magazine back in 2014 and their rich history in Carondelet. As we head northwest up East Steins Street, we pass through the industrial ring that was the heart of…
Reilly Avenue, Northeast of East Steins Street
On one of the quiet, isolated streets of southern Carondelet, I found a row of houses that I had never seen before. Just off East Steins Street, these houses are very old, probably from the 1860s or 70s. They have no alley and the residents seem to park on concrete parking pads out front. I’ve…
Tragic Fire, Quinn AME Chapel
Tragic, terrible news arrived on February 23, when fire severely damaged the historic Quinn AME Chapel in Carondelet. I looked at the African American church back in December of 2020. As others have noted, due its construction in 1869, the building is perhaps the only one left built by the former independent town of Carondelet….