I hadn’t been back to look at West Cabanne Place, platted in 1888, in a while, so I thought I would go take a look and check up on it. I first explored the street back in August of 2009, and revisited the Theodore Link House in September of 2014 and August of 2019. In…
Tag: Colonial Revival
Maple Avenue Between Clara and Belt Avenues, West End, Revisited
I realized I had so much fun revisiting the West End a couple of weeks ago that I decided to go back. This time I tried to hit blocks on the east side of the Ruth E. Porter Mall (read about Porter here). I’ve actually looked at this block of Maple Avenue before, back in…
The Country House, Strathmore
Which one of these is not like the other? I couldn’t find the name of the original builder of this stately house whose architectural style and form stands out from its its newer neighbors, but it was here by the late 1930s and the estate, according to modern real estate records was named Strathmore. While…
Clemens Avenue Between Hamilton Avenue and Porter Park, West End
We head down Goodfellow Boulevard from Walnut Park to reach the West End, one of my favorite neighborhoods in the City. It was incredibly rural, as Pictorial St. Louis shows, in 1876. But by the early Twentieth Century, it had filled in with posh wood frame and brick houses of St. Louis’s professional and managerial…
Riverview Boulevard, West Side, Walnut Park West
Riverview Boulevard has been known by many names over the years: Tracy Road or Avenue until 1907, Kingshighway Northwest until 1925 and Partridge Avenue at some point. Regardless, it forms the southeast boundary of Walnut Park West and has been a major artery since the Nineteenth Century, traveling to the northeast where it intersects with…
McClellan Heights, Davenport, Iowa
If there’s a neighborhood in Davenport that reminds me the most of Clayton, it’s McClellan Heights, to the east of Prospect Park, which we looked at yesterday. And perhaps, also like the Moorlands, that large development of Clayton that lies on the southeast side of that St. Louis suburb, though McClellan Heights lacks the large…
Prospect Park, Davenport, Iowa
Heading east of downtown Davenport, we reach Prospect Park and environs. Centered around an eponymous greenspace, the area grew up later than Hamburg upriver from older parts of Davenport. There is still no levee protecting the city, so there are excellent views of the Mississippi River from the neighborhood. There are relatively simple houses on…
Flora Avenue, Maplewood
Looping back around on Flora Avenue after turning around at Big Bend Boulevard, there are more houses that are typical of Maplewood. This house got a third floor added on. This house got a whole new wing added on to the east. I found this Dutch Colonial interesting in that it has a very prominent,…
Elm Avenue, Maplewood
Walking down Elm Avenue, we are in the Maplelawn Addition of Maplewood, where the houses are noticeably smaller, and further away from the former train station. They are also built in tracts of similar designs. There are also many four-square houses, which are common in Maplewood. Below is looking down Walter Avenue, which is part…
Maple Avenue, Maplewood
We then turn onto Maple Avenue, still part of the original Maplewood Subdivision, and see more suburban style Nineteenth Century houses. But then as we approach Sutton Boulevard, higher density housing appears. This is the amazing, Colonial Revival(?) Colonial House apartment building. That’s some nice Mid-Century Modern type font. A more traditional early Twentieth Century…