I find it fascinating how houses, as their commercial value went up, often times received storefront additions, sometimes when streetcars began to go by their front doors. These two buildings, once clearly houses, received fronts in the early to mid Twentieth Century.
Tag: Cherokee Street
Revisiting the Cinderella Building
On a sunny Saturday, I was standing across the from the Cinderella Building and rediscovered its amazing terracotta decorations. Update: Major renovations have restored much of the terracotta detail.
Theater Remnants, Cherokee Street
Tucked on the side of a now vacant building on Cherokee that was once an outdoor movie theater, one can see how the sidewalk still slopes down to what was presumably the movie screen. Very few remnants of outdoor theaters, which were once popular in St. Louis still survive. One location is on Pestalozzi that…
Cherokee Street/Via dei Tribunali
I thought the painting sitting in the window of El Torito Grocery Store looked familiar. Then I realized it; I had seen a similar composition, a scene of presumably the Virgin and Child saving souls from Purgatory, in the chapel of a church on the Via dei Tribunali, in Naples, Italy.
Poke-A-Dot Lounge Coming to Life
Update: It went back to being a sleazy storefront. After wasting away as a sleazy storefront, the northeast corner of Cherokee and Jefferson is coming back to life, with a sensitive facade restoration and renovation. Surely the newly revealed sign will remain.
Cherokee Street, December 2013
From a family made of mufflers, to a herd(?) of frogs, there is plenty of home-grown creativity and humor among many of the longtime residents of Cherokee Street.
Historic Lagering Cellar
Update: This is obviously the Cherokee Brewery, which was renovated for Earthbound Brewery. Earthbound Brewery is now closed. The owner of one of the last accessible lagering cellars from St. Louis brewing history was gracious enough to allow me to explore and photograph the subterranean space under his property this last week. Before mechanical refrigeration,…