It’s that time of year, so it’s time for odds and ends! Above is a spandrel from a storefront in downtown Belleville, looking suspiciously like something Louis Sullivan would design. Below is just another house we found while driving around town. Cleveland High School is looking really, really bad compared to earlier visits; I first…
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Osage Street Between Iowa and Ohio Avenues
And just like that, crossing over Iowa Avenue on Osage Street, and the houses go back about thirty years compared to the buildings we were looking at just two blocks to the west. The Second Empire, with its Mansard roods and wood cornices, as well as Romanesque Revival houses with its brick ornament line the…
Osage Street Between Oregon and Iowa Avenues
Heading east of Oregon Avenue, we continue on Osage Street in Dutchtown. There are rows of bungalows in a sort of Arts and Crafts style with jerkinhead roofs. Then there’s this interesting building, which at first glance looks like a ranch house but is actually an apartment building that is L-shaped, with two units on…
Osage Street Between Nebraska and Oregon Avenues
Moving along, we see some construction going on to the side of a three story Second Empire house. But what’s interesting is that right next door is a four-family that is clearly decades newer, so development came in fits and starts. We even have some Permastone below! Nothing drives me more crazy than when smaller…
Osage Street Between Pennsylvania and Nebraska Avenues
Passing by Pennsylvania Avenue, we proceed east on Osage Street and spot this interesting little doorway filled in with a palisade fence. I wonder if it was original to the building or if it was added in later to provide for more security. Regardless, it is such a great little detail, though I wish it…
Osage Street Between Minnesota and Pennsylvania Avenues
We’ve looked at the blocks of Osage Street to the west of here before, here and here, back in March of 2020, so let’s continue where we left off at Minnesota and head east. These houses are typical of Dutchtown, looking like they were built around the main period of development, from 1890 to 1910….
Montana Street Between South Grand Boulevard and Louisiana Avenue
Jumping to the other side of the neighborhood, we look at the one block section of Montana Avenue just to the east of South Grand Boulevard. What jumps out at me is this old wood frame house, probably dating back to the earliest days of the neighborhood. But then right next door is a house…
Iowa Avenue Between Chippewa and Keokuk Streets
Heading south of Chippewa Avenue into Dutchtown, there are more of the standard four families and single family houses. In particular, I liked the mixture of stock terracotta used to fill in the blind window above on the second floor. Wood cornices are replaces with brick and metal.
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Eight
While there are mostly multi-family apartment buildings in this area of Dutchtown, there are still many single family houses sprinkled in, as well. There is even this rare two story house, seen below. And there are plenty of Gingerbread houses in the neighborhood, too.
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Seven
As I’ve long said, duplexes in St. Louis are often concealed or hidden, made to look like they’re single family houses! And that’s no different in these houses from the World War II period in Dutchtown, where there is either a single gabled or hipped roof with the only way to tell it’s two units…