Green Lea Place east of Clay Avenue is in good shape, with rows of well-maintained houses. There are more wood frame houses, which probably date back to just after the Civil War, and more small brick bungalows from the early Twentieth Century.
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Clay Avenue Between Lee Avenue and Green Lea Place
Heading north up Clay Avenue from Lee Avenue, there are mostly wood frame houses, many of them with jerkinhead roofs. But there are also many vacant lots. There are many of the small brick bungalows like we saw on the long east-west thoroughfares of the Greater Ville, as well.
Lee Avenue Between Fair and Clay Avenues
Update: I returned in the summer of 2023. Lee Avenue is extra wide as it used to have a streetcar track down the middle of it (the rails are probably still buried under multiple layers of asphalt). It is a heavily abandoned and demolished street, but there are some nice houses along it, including one…
Fair Avenue and Green Lea Place, Fairgrounds
I drove by Harrison School years ago, and it’s deeply depressing to see how bad of shape it is in nowadays. In other words, it is totally trashed, and just about all of its windows are knocked out (protective fencing on some windows gives the appearance that some glass is intact). It’s a nice stout…
Harris Avenue Between Green Lea Place and Penrose Street
I have long said that this website is about giving an honest picture of all of St. Louis, showing that much of the City is unfairly stigmatized and stereotyped. I stand by that. Occasionally, however, I come across an isolated corner of the region where I am deeply distressed by what I see. One such…
Just East of Grand Boulevard and Fairgrounds Park
The blocks east of Fairgrounds Park are in rough shape. I am concerned about the future of this portion of the city. It is near where Bob Reuter’s boyhood home is. There are a few pockets of houses left, but for the most, the streets are desolate.
Burnout, Warne Avenue
Update: Demolished and lot graded by December of 2019. I always get sad when I see something like this, because I see the well-maintained bushes out front, and I realize this house was probably occupied when it burned. Looking back at Google Streetview, I also discovered this was a rare, Italianate wood frame survivor from…
North Side of Fairgrounds Park, Part 3
Many houses sit on streets that are blocked off, and abandoned houses’ grass and trees grow out of control. It is a strangely isolated area, with all of the closed streets.
North Side of Fairgrounds Park, Part 2
There are many old wood frame houses in this area, and they are clinging on, but there is a lot of abandonment.
North Side of Fairgrounds Park, Part 1
Messing around on Google Maps, I realized that the strip of land to the north of Fairground Park, and Lee Avenue (extra wide for streetcars) is a fascinating area of small back streets. Too wide for one whole block, and too narrow for two blocks, short streets, places and open grass fields create a unique…