The 6000 block of Kingsbury Avenue is mostly houses, but there are a few small apartment buildings mixed in, as well. The architecture continues to be an eclectic group of revival styles, and combinations of European styles from the ancient world up until the Middle Ages.
Tag: Forest Park North and West
Skinker-DeBaliviere #8, 5900 Block of Kingsbury Avenue
The 5900 block of Kingsbury is an interesting mix of early Twentieth Century apartment buildings, with some perfectly fine in-fill, done tastefully. I like how the third floor balconies were enclosed at some point in the building above.
Skinker-DeBaliviere #7, The Stained Glass Window
Little details like this, on a random apartment building central staircase, are what makes this city so amazing architecturally.
Skinker-DeBaliviere #6, Modernist In-Fill at Westminster and River des Peres Avenue
Readers who attended my recent lecture about the covering of the River des Peres will remember that the waterway once came up the right-of-way of the eponymous avenue. Because it was covered over in the 1920s and 30s, and most of the neighborhood was already built, Modernist in-fill was built later on the newly freed-up…
Skinker-DeBaliviere #5, 6000 Block of Westminster Place
I’m not a big fan of the way the streets are blocked off, particularly because in St. Louis politically it’s pretty much impossible to get these sorts of things repealed. If the current residents really do like the way the street grid is broken up, then that is fine, but I know in my own…
Skinker-DeBaliviere #4, 6100 Block of Westminster Place
The stately Beaux-Arts houses with Corinthian and Ionic columns continue on Westminster, with their unique roof lines, almost a modified Mansard. There are also houses that are a mix of Tudor Revival with some Arts and Crafts influences; these houses, which were common in the wealthy western edge of St. Louis in the early Twentieth…
Skinker-DeBaliviere #3, 500 N. Skinker Boulevard
The beauty of this house is the way it wraps around and addresses both of its public facades: the one facing Skinker, which is its address, but ironically, its primary face is Westminster Place on the south. Even the garage gets the full architectural treatment, matching the house and creating a cogent public face.
Skinker-DeBaliviere #2, 6100 Block of Washington Boulevard
The intersection of Washington and Rosedale features a whole row of apartment buildings, with clean lines and front doors inspired by Michelangelo, alternating between half lunette and pediment lintels. Then there are a row of perfectly painted Arts and Crafts tw0-family houses. Then come the rows of elegant single family houses, with Beaux-Arts details with…
Skinker-DeBaliviere #1, 6000 Block of Washington Boulevard
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be looking at the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, which I include in the greater Forest Park North and West area.
Preston M. Green Hall, Washington University
I know Washington University gets a lot of grief for its decision to focus on building Gothic/Tudor/”Academic” Revival buildings on its campus for the last twenty years, but I like it. I think it’s important for a university to have an image, and the architecture established one hundred years ago is beautiful, and worthy of…