Sadly, last week on April 26, this stunning row of buildings on South Broadway in the heart of Carondelet was heavily damaged by fire. The damage didn’t look too terribly bad from the front of these abandoned buildings, which I featured in a post back in March of 2021 (scroll down). The roof structure seems…
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Pennsylvania Avenue Between Hurck and Tesson Streets
Crossing Hurck Street, I’m intrigued by this first building. I suspect that it was originally built as a house, converted into a storefront, and then the retail space was then reconverted to living quarters and the display windows and front door bricked up. It is very unique. These are interesting blocks, with small bungalows that…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Marceau and Hurck Streets
Crossing over Marceau Street, there are many houses that date from the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century, with a few earlier houses mixed in. Very early wood frame houses are still standing, but they are rare on this block. I strongly suspect the house below was originally an Italianate style building, with a typical…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Catalan and Marceau Streets, Carondelet
Polishing off the full length of Pennsylvania Avenue in Carondelet, which I did in two earlier spurts earlier this winter here and here, we now start almost at the River des Peres, at Catalan Street. Some of these houses very well might have housed the workers at the nearby Klausmann Brewery, which we looked at…
More South Broadway, Carondelet
We’ve looked at two sections of South Broadway before, here and here. But my discovery of this house spurred an investigation that led me to finding all sorts of other interesting things about the last few blocks of St. Louis before you cross the bridge over the River des Peres into Lemay and St. Louis…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Robert and Nagel Avenues, Carondelet, Revisited
We took a quick glimpse down the street at this block before, but I decided to take a closer look at Pennsylvania Avenue between Robert and Nagel avenues. This Second Empire duplex is sadly abandoned. I love these little one story bungalows. There are so many amazing houses in Carondelet, and I’m worried about all…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Koeln and Robert Avenues, Carondelet
Crossing over Koeln Avenue (the German spelling for Cologne, well, replacing oe for ö), we see something that is rare along Pennsylvania Avenue: a corner store. That is most likely since we are just one block off South Broadway, which is a solid row of commercial buildings (see here and here). The houses tend to…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Courtois Street and Koeln Avenue, Carondelet
Whoa, wait a minute, I thought, what’s going on here? Why are there are a bunch of houses from the 1940s and later on the next block between Courtois and Schrimer? The explanation is easy, coming from old fire insurance maps; this was the Reiss-Rapp Lumber Company, and it clearly was later redeveloped as housing…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Tesson and Courtois Streets, Carondelet
Jumping down to the south and starting at the old Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks and Tesson Street, we now head north again on Pennsylvania Avenue in what is sometimes referred to as the Patch neighborhood, though many lifelong residents have told me they have never heard of that name. It’s usually just referred to, and…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Fillmore and Fassen Streets, Carondelet
Heading north of Fillmore there are relatively small houses, including this incredibly historic house below, whose age is still visible even behind the high palisade fence. It would have originally had a wood porch gallery to the left. This hipped roof survivor is also quite old, as well. But then as the elevation increased, and…