Update: Thanks to a reader’s help, this church was identified as Zoar German Methodist Episcopal Church, which occupied this building from 1905-1920. Built around 1922, this church at Gano and Carter is an interesting specimen. It has been added onto, repaired, patched and bricked up. But it is still occupied, and while the rest of…
Tag: Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds Neighborhood, Revisited
The Fairgrounds neighborhood is isolated by closed streets and Fairground Park on the south, but it is an interesting, eclectic neighborhood, architecturally. I photographed Lee Avenue in November of 2015 and December of 2019. I returned in the summer of 2023. It shows evidence of having been built up over a very long time, and…
Somewhere Around Penrose or Fairgrounds Neighborhood
I always find it fascinating how a row of houses born together begin to die and transform as the decades go by.
Lee Avenue, Fairgrounds, Revisited
Update: I went back and revisited Lee Avenue in September 2017 and December 2019. I returned in the summer of 2023. The streetcar used to come down Lee Avenue, and its wide expanse makes for what could be a grand boulevard in the Fairgrounds neighborhood. Unfortunately, it is in bad shape, and its stunning architecture…
Dashed Dreams?
I think this is an incomplete church, where the congregation never completed the upper stories. But research does not reveal any explanation about what this was. Records say that the F. W. Caspar & Co. was at this intersection in 1906. Which corner? I suspect this might have been a Christian Scientist church, judging from…
Northeast Fairgrounds Neighborhood
The streets southwest of West Florissant Avenue are lined with beautiful houses, many of which are still occupied, while others are being reclaimed by nature. This quiet street is lined with older buildings than much of the Fairgrounds neighborhood, and sadly that means they’re more likely to be abandoned. Which is a shame, because it…
Fairgrounds Neighborhood, Revisited
In the future, I am going to explore more of the neighborhood around Fairground Park. I like these pictures because they remind of my experience with the neighborhood: streets blocked off, and buildings obscured by mystery (or trees).
Forlorn Row, Border of Fairgrounds and Hyde Park
I was driving around up near Bob Reuter’s boyhood home when I made a left, and headed down 25th Street. I saw these four houses, each in their own state of deterioration. I snapped a picture, knowing that I had just grabbed a great picture that sums up what is so sad about this isolated…
2,000th Post: In Search of Bob Reuter
Update: See a documentary of Bob Reuter here. I always go back and take a mental inventory of where I was when a friend of mine passes away. What was going on, and did I feel anything different? I know exactly where I was when Bob Reuter tragically fell to his death in an open…
Fairgrounds, Facing the Park
I drove down the northern drive of Fairgrounds Park, and spotted these buildings lining the north side of the park. It’s a strange mix of all sorts of architectural styles, showing the slow advance of the city over the decades. The building below is at the corner with Grand, and shows what a thriving neighborhood…