I almost certainly will go back, but I made a first foray into one of the most interesting and beautiful additions to Clayton, just west of Big Bend Boulevard and Forest Ridge and Southmoor, and south of Brentmoor. Developed by the Moorlands Land Company, Moorlands Park, now known as Claverach Park, was platted in May…
Tag: Early Twentieth Century Eclectic
North Up Blair Avenue, North of Penrose Street, Hyde Park, March 2024
Heading north from Penrose Street and continuing our tour in Hyde Park, we see that Ferry Street is blocked off again, no doubt due to another problem with the sewer underneath in what was originally a deep chasm in the natural topography of the earth before the neighborhood’s development. We detour to the east down…
North Up Blair Avenue, South of Penrose Street, Hyde Park, March 2024
Heading north up Blair into Hyde Park, we pass by those streets with little bungalows built in the early Twentieth Century. I know there are many more that are abandoned now than when I first came up this way in 2008. The house below hasn’t changed for the better since I photographed it in January…
Novelty Theater Under Demolition
Due to more failure of Paul McKee’s Northside Regeneration to properly maintain its buildings, the historic Novelty Theater is being torn down. The two-screen theater, designed by Charles Deitring in 1910 possessed a capacity of over one thousand. It has sat empty for a long time. As far as whether the structure to the east’s…
Victor Street Between South Grand Boulevard and Arkansas Avenue
Victor Street, just east of South Grand Boulevard in Tower Grove East, is another well-kept secret with beautiful houses and an interesting apartment building in the Roehampton Addition. The house below actually sat abandoned for decades before being taken in court and is now being renovated by a responsible woman-owned development company. Other houses look…
Sidney Street Between Arkansas Avenue and South Grand Boulevard
Laid out in 1895 by Juliuis Pitzman, the Roehampton Addition possesses some of the largest and grandest homes in Tower Grove East in the blocks just to the east of Grand Boulevard. The addition is named after an area of Greater London southwest of the central city. The houses are large and eclectic, and while…
South Compton Avenue, Tower Grove East, Twenty Years Later
Back in 2004, Tower Grove East was not quite the same neighborhood that it is today, and many more houses sat vacant and crumbling. I found this random photo right before these houses would be renovated. What a difference twenty years makes.
Demolition of Those Apartment Buildings, The Grove
So, let me get this straight–we spent years fighting Lux Living from demolishing the buildings at Oakland and Kingshighway, only to sell the properties to another developer and proceed to demolish them, loudly pronouncing that they were now structurally unstable (they weren’t)? And on top of it, now they’re seeking a twenty year tax abatement…
Macon, Sixteen Years Later
Fast forward to February, and I was back in Macon for the first time in sixteen years, and this is what I saw. There were some fresh coats of paint, here and there. The former bank building has a new business in it, which I learned was originally the Macon Building and Loan Association, later…
From the Vault: Macon, Sixteen Years Ago
We found ourselves in Macon, in Northeast Missouri recently, and I wanted to check up on the downtown area. It had been sixteen years since my first and last visit to downtown Macon, and I only posted a few pictures: some pealing lead paint, and a Beaux-Arts and a Modernist bank. I dug these photos…