I’ve recently become interested in suburbs of suburbs, which in this case is Weldon Spring Heights, which is a suburb of Weldon Spring. It is also another entry in the Enclaves of St. Louis. And like many municipalities in North St. Louis County, it is also just a subdivision, in this case located in St….
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Enclaves of St. Louis #3: 2700 Block of Osceola Street
It’s been a little while since I’ve done an Enclaves of St. Louis feature, so I thought I’d look at the 2700 block of Osceola Street in Dutchtown, just east of South Broadway and west of Interstate 55, which now artificially truncates the block. This must be a very interesting place to live, with just…
Enclaves of St. Louis #2: Balson Avenue
Update: See the southern portion cut off by the train tracks here. Down Ecoff Avenue, an anonymous street just south of Manchester Avenue almost to the city limits, you then turn right onto Balson Avenue, and there you will find one of the most quiet streets in St. Louis, delineated in red below in an…
Enclaves of St. Louis #1: A Corner of Wells-Goodfellow
I’ve become intrigued recently with little enclaves of houses left behind when industry, highways or other constructions have cut off or isolated what was originally larger neighborhoods. The first one I’m looking at is an area of around a dozen houses reached by what is technically Hamilton Avenue south of Natural Bridge Avenue. It was…