Update: See the nursing home in February of 2019. Why do I keep coming back to the old abandoned nursing home at Blair and Grand? Its sudden, rapid vandalism is still so shocking to me, and others. Its out of town owners don’t seem to care. I do know one thing; the trees and bushes…
Tag: Deserted
Parks College, Revisited
A reader graciously sent me some more images of Parks College, as well as one postcard of what the school looked like in better days. My original post about the college has elicited the most comments, up there with the former Deaconess Hospital and Cragwold. It clearly is still very dear to many people in…
Baden in Winter #30, 1000 Block of Gimblin #2
The eastern half of the 1000 block of Gimblin is devastated. It’s hard to imagine this when it was still occupied. There’s also huge amounts of illegal dumping, and the streets are littered with trash.
Hyde Park in the Morning Light #29, The Park
Update: See the fire station in the southeast corner of the park here. Rugged Hyde Park, for which its neighborhoods is named, is one of the last places in the area that has at least some of the original topography of the land. The lake is beautiful, and recently was renovated, as evidenced by the…
Revisiting Northern East St. Louis
Update: I went back in the late fall of 2018. I went back over to Exchange Avenue to see what has been happening on the border between the old stockyards and East St. Louis. Much of what I photographed in the earlier post is now gone. I saw some houses that were still occupied, but…
Old Abandoned Jewish Orthodox Old Home, September 2017
It’s just getting worse and worse around here at the old abandoned nursing home. There has been more and more deterioration and more vandalism.
Western Lutheran Cemetery
Update: I revisited the cemetery in April of 2018 and in January of 2019 and in the late summer of 2021. Way up north, southeast of the intersection of Kingshighway and Natural Bridge Avenue, sits the Western Lutheran Cemetery. Since individual Lutheran churches all possessed their own cemetery, many of these burial grounds suffered when…
The Patch Revisited, Carondelet
Update: I revisited the area in July of 2018 and May of 2022. I’ve long been worried about the cluster of historic stone and other brick and wood frame houses that form the core of a neighborhood that goes back to at least the Civil War, or even before, when James Eads built ironclads on…
Anyone Remember Allenton?
Update: The bridge was reduced to one-lane, one-way northbound traffic in July 2019. Cross over an extremely narrow railroad viaduct, and you’re right in front of the old, vanished southwest St. Louis County village of Allenton. Destroyed when Eureka annexed the unincorporated town for a new strip mall development, the area is now completely deserted,…
Signs of Life, Jewish Orthodox Old Home
We were stopped at the light on Grand at Blair, so I decided to kill some time and roll my window down and snap the above picture of the abandoned Orthodox Jewish Old Home, whose despoliation I have covered for several years. Much to our astonishment, there was clearly loud music blaring from the upper…