Crossing over Osceola Street, we’re immediately struck by the ages of the houses that we see. That’s because this is the Jones and Miltenberger Subdivision laid out in March 28, 1876. You might recognize the Eugene Miltenberger name if you follow my Lemp content; he along with two others owned and subdivided the land where…
Tag: Early Twentieth Century Eclectic
Grace Avenue Between Meramec and Osceola Streets, Dutchtown
I’ve become intrigued with the so-called South St. Louis Suburb, a giant swath of area platted on July 14, 1858 by the surveyor Salomon (anybody have any information on him?). It was deep in the conutry, far from where the City and consisted of dozens of blocks on either side of South Grand Boulevard, itself…
Intersection of Gravois and Spring Avenues
I was sitting at the light at South Spring Avenue and Gravois Avenue and caught these buildings lying along the north side of the latter. It’s a reminder that Gravois used to be a pedestrian oriented street, before houses were torn down and replaced with parking lots for fast-food restaurants. Unfortunately, due to the noise…
Harlan Court, The Long Apartment Buildings
Harlan Court has always been that apartment complex that pops up in the news every five years or so for the wrong reasons. It’s inexcusable that there are still so many buildings owned by out-of-state slumlords who hold on to once august addresses. (I checked and there was a Citizens’ Service Bureau complaint for a…
Savoy Court
You might have missed Savoy Court while watching for errant driers at the intersection of Delmar and Union boulevards, but if you look closely at the northwest corner, you’ll see a modern entrance to what is an interesting little street laid out in 1909. What was originally six apartment buildings, starting this one at the…
Enright Avenue Between Belt and Arlington Avenues
While the beautiful houses of the Central West End are well known, I feel like I need to come back again and again to north of Delmar, in this case to the Visitation Park neighborhood, to show how stately homes are here, as well. There are houses such as the one below that are fairly…
Washington Place Between Lake Avenue and Kingshighway
Moving east on Washington Place we past by the first houses and then we are greeted with a surprise. We are presented with a manse much larger than other houses on the block, and I wonder if this subdivision was originally intended for more expansive residences. It was owned by Allen Harwood Collins and his…
Washington Place Between Union Boulevard and Lake Avenue
The days of spraying oil on bricks or dirt are thankfully over, but the beautiful houses that line Washington Place are still here just east of Union Boulevard (you can see the gatehouse of Washington Terrace off in the distance). The style of these houses are hard to give a real name for. Perhaps we…
Westminster Place Between Union Boulevard and Lake Avenue
West of Lake Avenue, which bifurcates the area, there are some handsome houses that I might describe as Colonial Revival almost of maybe Georgian, which is a break from the more cube-shaped houses that dominate Westminster Place. But there are plenty of what I would call semi-Renaissance Revival houses such as the one below. It’s…
Westminster Place Between Lake Avenue and Kingshighway
Now that we’ve looked at some of North St. Louis, let’s head south of Delmar and check up on how things are doing on the long blocks north of Portland Place and Westmoreland Place, which was the Forest Park Addition. These subdivisions were laid out in the 1890s, a couple of years after the aforementioned…