We continue on Cromwell before turning left onto Audobon and then another left onto Wellington Way. By the way, a moorland is a highland with grasses and savannahs, particularly common in England. It is no surprise then that the name was chosen for a neighborhood built when the Tudor Revival was so popular. But the…
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More of the Moorlands, Part One
I turns out when I had wandered into the narrow streets just south of Wydown Boulevard in between Hanley and Big Bend in Clayton, I was in the Moorlands, a development of incredible architectural diversity and beauty. What is so interesting about this neighborhood is how it is clearly continuing the St. Louis trend of…
High Above Downtown Clayton
I was visiting an office in the taller of the two Centene office buildings on some business and I was able to snap some photos of the panorama afforded me from the twenty-first floor. We start by looking to the northwest. To the north you can just barely see the spires of the Old St….
Parkdale Avenue Between Westwood and Audubon Drives, Clayton
Update: I went back to the area in January of 2024. For some unknown reason, I found myself heading east down Parkdale Avenue in Clayton a couple weeks ago. In many ways, it is sort of the perfect urban. First, there is a block of apartment buildings, for those who need or want a small…
The Shanley Building
Update: While threatened with demolition in 2019, the Shanley Building was ultimately incorporated into the plans for a mixed use project approved by Clayton in late December of 2020. The Shanley Building was designed by Harris Armstrong and opened in the 1930s. I photographed it for the first time back in 2010, not realizing its…
Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist
This Christian Scientist church is interesting; it is primarily a Gothic Revival structure, but its front portico has echoes of the Romanesque or even the Renaissance. I also find it interesting, as earlier churches by this denomination had actively rejected traditional church design (see the former locations off of Gravois, Page or Russell), and going…
Clayton-Forsythe Building, Clayton
Update: Demolished at some point before February of 2025, I had never seen this building before, but it’s worth checking out; it turns out my colleague Toby Weiss had already discovered it years ago. As more of Clayton is demolished, this building is a fitting tribute to what could be.
Hanley House, Clayton
Martin F. Hanley bought the farmland on which his house sits in 1847. It is a simple, but elegant Greek Revival house with an interesting paint scheme. Abandoning the more typical white of Greek Revival houses meant to emulate white marble, the Hanley House uses an olive green color, which sets off nicely with the…