Fourteen years now. The world and St. Louis have changed so much in that time. I’ve changed so much, too. I think about what and how I photographed in that time. What is gone, and what I had no idea even existed back in May of 2007. I’m on my fourth camera, and I have…
Tag: Forest Park North and West
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Update: The congregation vacated the church and put the building up for sale in 2023. The church sustained heavy damage, particularly to its roof, from the tornado that hit St. Louis on May 16, 2025. The massive Westminster Presbyterian Church, on the southwest corner of Union and Delmar boulevards, is easily one of the largest…
Waterman Boulevard Between Lake Avenue and Kingshighway Boulevard
I realized I’ve never really ever taken any photographs over this way on Waterman Boulevard, and on a nice sunny day, the buildings really looked their best. It’s a mix of mansions, three-families flats–which are super common in Chicago but not so much in St. Louis–and other apartment buildings that look like six-families. It’s interesting…
Holy Corners Revisited, West Side of Kingshighway
I looked at Holy Corners way back in January of 2009, and I figured it was long overdue for an update. First up is the beautiful Tuscan Temple, which is an example of the Doric Order of classical architecture. But I have to chuckle, as it is Roman in form, as it only has columns…
Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy, Former Kennard Elementary School
Update: The School Board of the St. Louis Public Schools officially renamed the school after the founder of Metro High School during the summer of 2022, effectively ending the debate over the original name of the school. Samuel M. Kennard Elementary School has been in the news recently, so I thought I would check it…
Lindell Boulevard Water Main Break, Part II
There was another major water main break on Lindell Boulevard near, but not in the exact same spot as the one last summer at almost the exact same time of year. Hot temperatures do that to aging infrastructure. I went out yet again to get interesting insights into the construction of Lindell, and again I…
Lindell Boulevard Water Main Break
Update: There was a water main break nearby in July of 2020. I imagine everyone in the St. Louis region, and perhaps even some outside, heard about the breakage of the 30 inch cast iron water main under Lindell Boulevard, just east of Union Boulevard where Park Road cuts off for a short distance. I…
Kingsbury Place
Perhaps I’ll just let the photographs speak for themselves; Kingsbury Place is not the most famous of the private streets in St. Louis, but it certainly holds its ground in the finesse of its architecture. What is most interesting is that it shows how styles had already begun to change since the private streets to…
Kingsbury Place Gates, Revisited
I took a look at the massive gates of Kingsbury Place back in October of 2014, and I returned and photographed them in early June of 2019. They are spectacular, and probably one of my favorite gates of all the private places in St. Louis.
Skinker-DeBaliviere #26, 5900 Block of Pershing Avenue
Closer to Des Peres Avenue, which was once actually the River des Peres, the houses are smaller, and some are newer, reflecting the covering of the stream in the early Twentieth Century. Note the house above to the left; it was a Modernist bungalow that received a half-timber roof addition sometime in the not-to-distant past….