I was digging around in the vault and I stumbled upon these just ok photos of the interior of St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church from probably just over a decade ago. They were giving tours during Lent and their famous fish fries. I’ve looked at the exterior twice, back in April of 2011 and then…
Tag: Dutchtown
Kingsland Court
Kingsland Court was first platted in late 1913, and judging from the photo about from 1920, was slow to develop. Interestingly, an ordinance was passed by the Board of Aldermen in 1916 to extend the street to Louisiana Avenue, but that never happened, with the court instead ending in a stone retaining wall. The Christian…
More Notable Buildings, Chippewa Street
The sun was looking good on some of the other buildings on the south side of Chippewa Street, and they run the gamut of age and styles. These two houses, above and below, show just how dramatic the street has been graded compared to what the original lay of the land was. Below, I always…
Chippewa Street Corner Stores
I was heading west on Chippewa Street from South Jefferson, and I thought it would be interesting to photograph the corner stores that I saw on my way. Since these are on the south side of the street, they are in Dutchtown. While there has been some really great rehabbing by Lutheran Development and RISE,…
Dad’s Cookies
314 Day is tomorrow and I wanted to bring you a great story the day before about a St. Louis Institution. Everyone knows about Dad’s Cookies in Dutchtown, but did you know that it was originally part of a chain out of Los Angeles? They are the last store to survive after every other one…
Abandoned Grocery Store
As I drove southbound on I-55 recently, I glanced to my right and noticed a giant “LUNCH” sign on the Universal Food Market. I thought to myself, “Wow, they’re really going all-in on lunch.” Then I realized that it was a giant graffiti tag, and that the grocery store had gone out of business a…
Former St. Alexius Hospital, Revisited
What better way to end our tour of historic St. Louis hospitals than to come full circle back to the “South Broadway” campus of St. Alexius? Known as South City Hospital before it closed (which was the obvious outcome of its decade or more long struggles), perhaps the institution is at best an illustration the…
Roosevelt Apartments, Building Collapse, Dutchtown
St. Louis is at the point where abandoned, historic buildings are now just simply collapsing, not in out of the way places where the whole street is vacant lots and it’s the last house left on the block, but rather in the heart of one of the densest neighborhoods in the City, Dutchtown, and on…
Louisiana Avenue Between Walsh Street and Taft Avenue, Part Two
Heading north, the houses reach back to the first decade of the Twentieth Century. The brick gets redder, if that’s a word. The round windows of the Romanesque begin to appear. Those stately four-square houses, as we call them, also are there. More complicate hipped roofs with projecting gables and intricate porches are also present….
Louisiana Avenue Between Walsh Street and Taft Avenue, Part One
Up next is this whole row of houses that look like they’re frosted like cakes! They’re mostly two-families, though of course in true St. Louis style they look like single family houses. The archetypal one story southern Dutchtown house appears, as well. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, though. Then the houses are more…