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…
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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….
Phelan Faust Paints
Moving away from the riverfront in Carondelet, we now move to the former Phelan-Faust Paint Manufacturing Company. It was acquired by Valspar Paints of Minnesota in 1973. Francis Phelan, the founder, was born in 1854 and founded the Phelan-Faust Company in 1902 in East St. Louis, where there was another plant. It matches up perfectly…
Titonix Lead White Factory
I found an old book at the library about Carondelet, and while it was filled with the normal stuff about French Colonial history–which is really cool–what I really found interesting is the industry. I like to think about Carondelet not as a quaint little French town, but rather as a big, brawny Brooklyn on the…
Minnesota Avenue Between Primm and Marceau Streets
Continuing south on Minnesota, we encounter more vernacular housing, with an occasional duplex, such as above, but also some very interesting wood frame construction, as seen below. As far as I can tell above and below, these were standard wood frame Greek Revival houses that received extremely awkward expansions to their second floors! The dormers…
Minnesota Avenue Between Schirmer and Primm Streets
I was checking out the new Sugarwitch ice cream sandwich store at the Ivory Triangle and then wandered over to Minnesota and headed south, checking out some of the cool buildings of Carondelet. We head south, and this building intrigues me; St. Boniface is just northwest of this Gothic Revival beauty, and I have to…