We’ll now head into the 1930s and 40s, when the World War II era came to St. Louis (yes, I know that the United States entered World War II in 1941), and Modernism via Streamline Moderne became common in the city’s architecture. While we normally associate these styles of four-family flats with St. Louis Hills,…
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Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Five
What is interesting, however, in this incredibly dense neighborhood of apartment buildings, is how there are a scattering of single family houses thrown in here and there in the part of Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard. Take, for example, these two bungalows above that I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else in the city,…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Four
Continuing on in our look at two family flats in Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard, we see more examples that have a front parapet wall. And if you look at the examples above, you can see more of those mass-produced glazed terracotta decorative elements that appear in the larger multi-unit buildings. But there are…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Three
Next up we’ll be looking at two days of two family flats, which are represented in an abundance in the area of Dutchtown we’re looking at west of South Grand Boulevard. The majority have two front doors to access the upstairs and downstairs units, and have front facing gable roofs. However, there are a couple…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Two
Next up in our examination of the built environment of Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard, we’ll look at four-family flats built in the 1910s and 20s. What is interesting to me is the configuration of the front doors; sometimes they are right next to each other, but also you can see above there are…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part One
Back in August of 2022, I looked at the ensemble of large apartment buildings built in the 1920s in Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard in a series of posts. I neglected to look at the houses and apartment buildings that fill in the context, so over the next several days, I’m going to do…
Maryville Gardens
Today, when you stand at the corner of Nebraska Avenue and Meramec Street and look to the southwest, you see the Maryville Gardens Station of the United States Post Office. But if you were to travel back in time to the 1870s, you would have seen the original location of Maryville College, back when Dutchtown…
Fire, Former Beiderwieden Funeral Home
The old Beiderwieden Funeral Home on Chippewa Street just west of South Grand Boulevard was severely gutted by flames on February 14. Long vacant and only appearing in the news briefly a few years ago when it was considered as the new location of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (the founder’s daughter was confused when…
Fassen Street Between Virginia and Michigan Avenues
Down at the furthest southern end of Dutchtown, almost to Carondelet, is Fassen Street, which is an interesting mix of housing styles. Heading east from Virginia Avenue, we see this streetscape. It’s interesting, having just looked at Angelrodt Street in Hyde Park, to see houses that are very similar to the ones up north. Each…
North Dakota Street
Just off Virginia Avenue is the short street of North Dakota, one block north of Dakota Street, which strangely enough was not named South Dakota Street. It’s just another one of those nice, tidy streets in Dutchtown, with some one story houses, some two story houses, and those ubiquitous four-family apartments. The intersection with South…