Opened in 1911, Bryan Hill Elementary School serves the College Park neighborhood. Designed by William Ittner, it is squeezed into a narrow parcel of land, making photographs of the building difficult. Named after Dr. John Gano Bryan, a famous educator in the late Nineteenth Century, that appellation still does not explain the “Hill” portion. Perhaps…
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North Up Blair Avenue, College Hill, May 2026
We finish our trip north of Blair Avenue by looking at College Hill. As I suspected would happen eventually, that wood frame flounder house, which I last looked at back in March of 2024, has been demolished. Things look mostly the same, including the wood frame houses that I’ve often noted before, below. I’ve always…
Around Blair Avenue, College Hill
I wandered around the rest of College Hill, and spotted some of these houses. I’ve looked at the house below, which never ceases to amaze me whenever I still see it standing, in January of 2023, spring of 2021 (seventh photo), March of 2021, in the snowy winter of 2019, November of 2016 (third photo) April of 2018 (fifth photo) and December of 2018 (last…
College Avenue, College Hill
After leaving Bellefontaine Cemetery, I hung a left on College Avenue in the College Hill neighborhood, which I haven’t really looked at much lately. While there is a lot of abandonment and demolition, there are some people who are not giving up, and as seen below, have doubled down on their commitment to their home….
The Past, Most Holy Name of Jesus
A reader requested some images of the interior of the former The Most Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in College Hill, which I had featured recently due to its abandonment, vandalism and copper theft. One thing I do not know for sure is the status of the stained glass windows, whose main narrative…
Late Summer Odds and Ends
I have some leftover photos from the summer that I needed to clear out. Above, this house has collapsed on West Florissant Avenue just north of Grand Boulevard in the College Hill neighborhood, unfortunately. The house below is in Hyde Park, and I originally looked at it back in August of 2018. The infamous gas…
Fires
The third weekend of July was rough in North St. Louis. First off, we lost a beautiful corner store at West Florissant and De Soto avenues, which I swear I’ve photographed and I also could swear was occupied with a second-hand appliance store if I remember correctly. It was destroyed by fire Saturday morning in…
Former Most Holy Name, Attacked
Update: See historic photos of the interior here. Well, this is not good. I was coming from somewhere and when I drove by the former Most Holy Name Roman Catholic Church, I was startled to discover a very bad development. Much like what doomed St. Augustine’s and what has also happened at St. Mark’s, someone…
North Up Blair Avenue, College Hill, March 2024
We cross into College Hill and look down Obear Avenue, which I looked at back in the snow of the winter of 2019. Below is the wood frame half flounder I’ve photographed many times over the years. Further north I came across that pocket of wood frame houses, which must be very, very old. Sadly,…
Updates on the Northeast Side
There has been a major collapse of the service wing of the former Jewish Orthodox Old Home. I have been tracking its deterioration, and the last time I photographed this portion of the building, in January of 2021 (second photo), it was already looking unstable. I wonder if the repeated lashing of severe weather recently…