Update: The site is now a vacant lot. The three houses in Old North (last photo) just north of Crown Candy are now gone, but I’m noticing something new; they’re removing the basements now and not just simply pushing the dirt into the hole. Below, a four family I photographed on Hebert Street back in…
Tag: Corner of Jefferson and Hebert
Coming Soon: Nothing! Corner of Jefferson and Hebert Edition
Update: As of late January, demolition is complete and the bricks stacked (third photo). I made a startling discovery at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Hebert Street in mid December of 2019, where I have been coming and documenting for over a decade. As part of the City’s effort to demolish vacant buildings, this…
Ten Year Anniversary of St. Louis Patina
I hope my readers, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this website, will allow me to talk about something other than St. Louis architecture. As I’ve said before, over the last decade St. Louis Patina has become something much more than a just a place for pictures of beautiful or abandoned buildings (though…
The Corner of Jefferson and Hebert, Late April 2017
There were Teddy Bears sprawled out all over the street when I revisited this intersection that I have been documenting for several years.
Jefferson and Hebert, July 2016
Not much has changed, since April of this year. The weeds have gotten taller.
Teddy Bears, JeffVanderLou, April 2016
See my earlier posts on the intersection of Jefferson and Hebert.
Hebert and Jefferson, in the Snow
Update: The buildings were demolished around the beginning of 2020. I return to this intersection often because it affords good views of St. Augustine a block away, but I still find the condition and life of the residential buildings on the other corners interesting to watch over the years. Just a couple of weeks ago,…
Hebert Street around Jefferson Avenue, In the Shadow of St. Augustine’s
Update: The building above was demolished around January of 2020. New animals come and go at this light post. Below, the houses that once fed the pews of St. Augustine’s begin to fall, one by one.
Streetside Memorial
Update: The buildings were demolished around the beginning of 2020. Jefferson Avenue is a long thoroughfare; at one point, it passes by multi-million dollar mansions. On other sections, it passes by a much different world.
Hebert Street
Update: The buildings above and below were demolished around the beginning of 2020. Hebert Street can change from utter devastation and abandonment in the northeastern corner of JeffVanderLou… …to new signs of life in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood. Update: I went back to this block in July of 2014 and the winter of…