Update: This event has already passed. I was pleasantly surprised to receive a review copy of the Missouri History Museum’s publication, The Architecture of Maritz and Young: Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis, by Kevin Amsler and L. John Schott. If you’ve never heard of the firm of Maritz and Young, you’ll be interested to…
Tag: Clayton
Clayton, 1975
Sorry that it’s a little blurry, but my Lord, look at all of the parking lots…
Forest Ridge and Southmoor
Update: See a plat map for the subdivision here. South of Brentmoor Park, and laid out at the same time, is Forest Ridge; while the terrain of the street is more level, it still has a distinctive wooded common area in the center. To the south on Big Bend is Southmoor, another private street probably…
Brentmoor Park
Update: See a plat map for the subdivision here. Composed of only less than a dozen houses, Brentmoor Park may be the most exclusive historic private suburb in St. Louis. Designed by Henry Wright, it sits on the northwest corner of Wydown and Big Bend. The most distinguishing feature is the large park that lines a…
Carrswold
Originally the country estate of Robert Carr, Carrswold is one of several private streets created in the 1920’s in Clayton just west of the St. Louis Boundary and Big Bend Road. Heavily Tudor Revival in style, the mansions of the private subdivision are laid out on large lots, with sweeping boulevards, really parks in their…
Streetcar Shelters, Wydown Boulevard, Clayton
Originally I thought these turn of the century streetcar shelters at the front gates of some of the most exclusive private streets in the inner ring of St. Louis were for businessmen going downtown, until I was politely corrected by colleagues and informed that these were actually for their hired help. I particularly like the…
New and Old in Clayton
It’s interesting to see a church, once probably the tallest building in downtown Clayton, dwarfed by a newer office building. Is it particularly aesthetically pleasing? No, but I’ve seen it all over the United States.
A Sad Statement on Automobile/Pedestrian Relations in America
I want to start by saying that I’m not complaining about Clayton putting this sign up, but rather that they felt the need to have to do it. It should go without saying that pedestrians have the right of way when they have the “walk sign” or at any time at a four-way stop. It’s…
Old-School Buildings, Clayton
Old and New Clayton sit right next to each other, as these various low-rise buildings from the early Twentieth Century demonstrate.