Now Louisiana passes by the west side of the St. Cecilia’s campus, and I have to wonder if the reason there is this elegant house is in some way originally related to that church. Certainly it was built here to be close by. The more humble houses are no less elegant going north on the…
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Louisiana Avenue Between Wilmington Avenue and Eiler Street
We continue past Wilmington Avenue at this point. Where the Arts and Crafts style dominates in the early Twentieth Century. And we reach Bellerieve Boulevard, which we remember is a remnant of an incomplete parkway system that was never completed. When we reach Bates Street, Louisiana dead ends at a row of apartment buildings. We…
Louisiana Avenue Between Holly Hills and Wilmington Avenues, Part Two
Then we hit a pocket of really old vernacular houses, wood frame and all. It makes me wonder why there were houses out here so early. Frequently there were truck farms and also a lot of greenhouses. Of course, there were also a lot of quarries. This is a very interesting house, with strains of…
Louisiana Avenue Between Holly Hills and Wilmington Avenues, Part One
For whatever reason, I thought I would mosey up Louisiana Avenue through Dutchtown on a bright and sunny Saturday recently. Starting down south at Holly Hills, the houses are from the Twentieth Century. And red brick like you see in the Nineteenth Century is rare. You see tan, buff and brick, sometimes mixed together in…
Other Fall Updates, Fires, Demolitions, Etc.
It finally happened, the Mullanphy Emigrant Home, which I last looked at back in June of this year, caught on fire and burned to the ground on the night of September 14th. There is certainly no grand conspiracy, but simply the fact that overnight lows reached 50 degrees, and a squatter’s fire probably spread out…
Stop Me Before I Paint Again!
Disclaimer: This post is not an attack at homeowners, who due to economic hardship have painted their house, or who inherited a painted brick house. St. Louis Patina legal disclaimer: In no way is St. Louis Patina accusing or insinuating that the current owner of the building depicted in the above and below photos is…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 100: Tennessee Avenue Between Taft and Osceola Streets, West Side
Passing by Taft and another abandoned storefront, we begin to see the rise in elevation as we work our way up the hill towards Cleveland High School. There’s a wide variety of housing stock. Including these two beauties, whose age probably predate much of the other houses in the area. Then there’s a whole row…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 99: Tennessee Avenue Between Itaska and Taft Streets, West Side
The next block is just as unique as the others further south on Tennessee Avenue, with compact two-families starting out just north of the Itaska. But then we get a whole row of single story bungalows. More than anything, I associate these houses with the southern end of Dutchtown, down the hill from Meramec Street….
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 98: Tennessee Avenue Between Delor and Itaska Streets, West Side
Heading just one block north again, the housing stock changes. Multi-family buildings appear, with two-families predominating. There’s evidence that at least some of them have been converted into single-family houses, such as the one above and possibly the one on the right below. A couple of single family bungalows end the block before the alley….
The Beauty of Dutchtown, 97: Tennessee Avenue Between Walsh and Delor Streets, West Side
Heading north, we see more of the traditional houses that we see in the southern side of Dutchtown, built in the early Twentieth Century. Many like the ones above have pressed metal cornices that are now missing, but the ones below have terracotta ones which have fared better over the years. Older versions, instead of…