Continuing south past St. James the Greater, we can see the original church below, which I suspect was one of those standard rural school-sanctuary combos we see throughout the Archdiocese. And I think we see the storefront above on the right below in the historic photo down the hill from the church. There are many…
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Tamm Avenue Between Clayton and Wade Avenues
Passing by the intersection of Tamm and Clayton Avenues, we are now come upon Victoria Avenue. There was another mine just to the east of here. The Hiram Roberts Mine had a 75-foot shaft into the earth in order to reach clay deposits in 1911; houses now cover the site. For whatever reason, there is…
The River des Peres Along Manchester Avenue
I’ve long been intrigued but sort of flummoxed by the industrial valley that lies along the Middle River Des Peres Valley, paralleled by Manchester Avenue, which is really the second, or “New” Manchester Road, which replaced the “Old” one, now signed as Southwest Avenue. There was and is industry, but it was never “cool” industry…
Another Lamella Roof Discovered
I know I’ve read and heard it passed around as common knowledge (and even repeated it myself) that the two lamella roofs in St. Louis were the now-demolished Arena and the gymnasium of the former St. Elizabeth’s Academy-now-International Institute. So I got excited when I learned that a warehouse on Manchester Avenue just west of…
Breezy Heights
Cut off by Interstate 44 in the 1970s, there’s a small sliver of the Breezy Heights Addition tucked in between the highway to the south and the railroad tracks to the north. Laid out in the late Nineteenth Century, the development was early with an Italianate house or two, but then other houses were built…
Enclaves of St. Louis #2: Balson Avenue
Update: See the southern portion cut off by the train tracks here. Down Ecoff Avenue, an anonymous street just south of Manchester Avenue almost to the city limits, you then turn right onto Balson Avenue, and there you will find one of the most quiet streets in St. Louis, delineated in red below in an…
Prather Addition, Franz Park
Supposedly Dogtown landowner James Prather was out of town for an extended period when the nearby Glades were first subdivided, and his caretaker took advantage of his employer’s absence to cut down the property’s oak trees and sell off the… Editor’s Note: Due to the website crashing in January of 2022, the text of this…
Mitchell Place Addition, Franz Park
The son of Stanislaus Mitchell, Sr., Stanislaus Jr. was president of Mitchell Clay Manufacturing Co., which was located on Manchester Avenue just west of Sublette. It was logical, then, that his family’s estate was up in the hills to the… Editor’s Note: Due to the website crashing in January of 2022, the text of this…
Plateau Avenue Between McCausland and Forest Avenues, The Glades, Franz Park
Leaving behind noisy McCausland, we head down Plateau Avenue, past the parking lot on the north for Olympia. There is a row of unique four-family apartment buildings, and then there are some interesting single family houses. This house has an… Editor’s Note: Due to the website crashing in January of 2022, the text of this…
McCausland Avenue Between West Park and Plateau Avenues, Franz Park
McCausland Avenue has long been known as the southern half of the western boundary of St. Louis. It’s a little too narrow to be a good four-lane street, but it’s too wide to be a two-lane street. Traffic moves along… Editor’s Note: Due to the website crashing in January of 2022, the text of this…