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…
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Lohmeyer Avenue and Oakview Terrace, Maplewood
Heading up Sutton Boulevard around the giant grocery store parking lot, we turn right onto Lohmeyer Avenue, part of the Lohmeyer Heights Addition. I am curious about this house, as it looks like it is older than the rest of the homes in the addition. Was it the Lohmeyer house? I’m curious if anyone knows….
St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, Cottleville
Where Route N, the old Boone’s Lick Road make a right turn, going from west to north, is St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery in Cottleville. The church was founded in 1866, and sat at the intersection for over a hundred years until it moved to a new location in 1980. The site of…
Des Peres City Hall, Former Lutheran Children’s Home
Please join me on July 24 at 6:30 at the Central Library in downtown St. Louis for a lecture about my new book. Please register here. Today, Des Peres City Hall sits in a verdant park, but originally its building and the surrounding grounds was the Lutheran Children’s or Orphans’ Home. The last of what…
After the Tornado: The Ville, Revisited
I traveled around The Ville some more and it has been devastated. Yes, there was already a fair amount of abandonment and vacant lots, but what was intact and in good condition was damaged badly. Sumner High School suffered extensive loss of its roof, as well as some windows, from what I understand. It was…
After the Tornado: Visitation Park
Visitation Park is a small neighborhood, north of Delmar and just west of Union Boulevard, named after the former Visitation Academy which was once in this area. There was still some damage from the tornado, mainly in small loss of shingles to roofs. You can see the house in better times here. However, as can…
After the Tornado: Wydown Boulevard, Clayton
I had just looked at this stretch of Wydown Boulevard back in January of 2024 in Clayton in between Big Bend and Skinker boulevards, and it has now been transformed due to the tornado of May 16. The trees and windows of the houses along here have been savaged. There are also signs of damage…
After the Tornado: Union Boulevard
Heading north on Union Boulevard, we see the damage to Waterman Place; normally the house above and below are largely shielded from view but with the trees destroyed, they are exposed. Many of the windows on the Chesterfield, below, have been blown out; I have been told that throughout the area affected by the tornado,…
After the Tornado: Photographing Destruction
I grappled with whether I should take or post any photographs of the tornado damage that struck St. Louis on May 16, 2025, which a reader noted will now be indelibly linked with the anniversary of the founding of this website on the same day. Is it ethical to photograph destruction, and in particular people’s…
West Bruno Avenue, Richmond Heights
I’ve been looking at the mansions north of Highway 40 in Richmond Heights, but I recently traveled down West Bruno Avenue just west of Big Bend Boulevard and caught these houses. Richmond Heights really has some great architecture, and if you travel as the crow flies, it is as close to downtown St. Louis as…