For lack of a better word to describe them, A-frame churches can be spotted popping up around the St. Louis region after World War II. Two of the most interesting are in the Florissant area. The first one, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church on Graham Road, is perhaps the tallest and largest. While I can…
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Ferguson, Early May 2019
Passing into Ferguson on the isolated road from Jennings, I found myself at these low slung apartments. I thought they were abandoned at first, but their tenants’ cars are parked on the other side. I went around town for a little while, and found some of the railroad suburb’s larger houses, with broad open yards…
The History of West Florissant Avenue
My colleague and former North County resident, Toby Weiss, wrote up this stellar summary of the history of West Florissant Avenue. She’s been photographing this street for years (I had the opportunity to join her on some of her earlier sojourns), and the time seems right for this magnum opus. You don’t have to agree…