Update: The stone duplex was gutted by fire on January 31, 2024, with the fire spreading to the brick house to the north. I went back down to Vulcan Street in an isolated corner of Carondelet east of Broadway to see how things were doing. Needless to say, I saw little that was doing better….
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Far Southern Carondelet, Revisited May 2022
I last looked at the area I called far south Carondelet back in July of 2018, and I’m continually drawn back to the narrow streets and Civil War era housing. These buildings are on or around Davis Street, as well as Reilly Street. They are threatened however, by the encroaching of industry, which needs huge…
Sad Loss, Carondelet
Update: Demolished sometime before the winter of 2023. Sadly, the beautiful house on Michigan Avenue in Carondelet that I featured back in March of 2021 suffered a devastating fire only three months after I originally photographed it. No word yet if it’s salvageable, but judging from how heavily damaged it is, the chances are pretty…
Early Houses in Northern Carondelet
I’ve looked at the super rare Carpenter Gothic house before, but there are also other extremely unique and very old houses located in the northern reaches of Carondelet that date back to the earliest days of the then-independent city and may even predate the Civil War. The first tow houses are located right on Michigan…
Frank W. Choisel Residence, Carondelet
This house, which I suspect is one of the earliest examples of the Second Empire style in St. Louis, was the home of Frank W. Choisel, editor of the The Realty and Builder Record, which published information on new buildings being built in St. Louis. It is a critical source on the built environment in…
Revisiting Carondelet: Steins Street Between Pennsylvania and Michigan Avenues
Steins Street is just one of those streets where you think, wow, what an amazing snapshot of what this city used to look like back before the Civil War. These are some old houses, and they have been immaculately restored. They give us a window into what the early housing stock of Carondelet and St….
Revisiting Carondelet: Minnesota Avenue Between Mott and Iron Streets
On the other side of Minnesota Avenue from The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet is this row of houses, many showing alterations from the passage of time. The cornices are missing here and there, but overall they look much the same as they probably did a century ago. The proliferation of tan brick also…
Revisiting Carondelet: Haven Street Between South Broadway and Minnesota Avenue
Walking up the hill, we realize just how steep the grade changes from the flat land along South Broadway to the heights along Michigan Avenue. There are some interesting houses along the way. And there’s also some awesome examples of houses that were clearly built before street grading! The terrain of the area was clearly…
Revisiting Carondelet: South Broadway Between Quincy and Haven Streets
Moving north past Quincy Street, the majority of the historic built environment is on the west side of South Broadway. On the east side are a bunch of vacant lots and rusty warehouses. Still, there are more elaborately decorated Italianate storefronts that are not common in St. Louis anymore, largely swept away by later development…
Revisiting Carondelet: South Broadway Between Nagel Avenue and Quincy Street
South Broadway is where the industry and the people met in Carondelet, and the businesses that served both line both sides of the thoroughfare that was originally known as Carondelet Road for much of its early history. Below is the Southern Commercial Bank, with drive-up bank teller windows in the back. The bank still has…