The Casa Loma Ballroom continues to be a landmark on Cherokee Street. The previous Casa Loma was destroyed by fire. While the Cinderella continues the replacement of its original terracotta. But an old Anheuser-Busch pub still sits in limbo, its owner holding out.
Tag: Cherokee Street
Cherokee Brewery, Facelift
The renovation of the old Cherokee Brewery into Earthbound continues, with a complete removal of that awful red paint, and tuckpointing giving new life to this ancient structure. It will be amazing when complete. Ghost signs have appeared… …while the floor joist holes of the demolished saloon next door are visible.
South Broadway and Cherokee Street
Update: See this section of South Broadway in early 2019. I hate the wide streets of St. Louis; they encourage speeding and reckless driving, and they cut off neighborhoods. Also, you don’t get the chance to notice these cool houses along Broadway. There is rarely traffic along here to justify the wide streets anymore. It…
Illinois Avenue South of Cherokee
South of Cherokee, on Illinois, the beautiful houses that feature so prominently in Benton Park to the north continue in the Marine Villa neighborhood. Some are rehabbed, some are abandoned, some have been continuously occupied since the 1880s, but together they create a symphony of brick. This building below is technically an “alley house” because…
Cherokee Street Storefront Additions
I might have posted this before, but I never get tired of of these two houses, dating back to the late Nineteenth Century (or perhaps earlier for the house on the right), but both very obviously receiving storefronts in the Twentieth Century as the street car turned Cherokee Street commercial, and living along the street…
Fortune Teller Details, Cherokee Street
Walking down Cherokee Street one day, I looked up and rediscovered the beautiful terracotta work that graces this building. The mottling, which looks to be a little bit of rust mixes in with the glaze, is just one of those little details that makes St. Louis so great.