Update: The Fountain Park neighborhood was severely damaged by the tornado in the afternoon of May 16, 2025. Fountain Park is such a beautiful little neighborhood, directly north of the Central West End, but possessing the exact same housing stock of its more wealthy neighborhood to the south. Update: The building below continued to deteriorate…
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Euclid Avenue, Fountain Park
Update: See the houses above in the spring of 2019. The “Central West End” is an artificial construct! It was all one giant neighborhood, known as the West End (which still exists as a smaller neighborhood to the west), before redlining separated out the part north of Delmar and condemned it by redlining. Lewis Place…
North Side of Delmar
There’s been a lot of talk of “North of Delmar” recently, so I thought it would be interesting for me to drive down Delmar, starting in the Central West End in the west and ending at Vandeventer Avenue in the east and photograph the actual north side of Delmar. What I saw may surprise you;…
The Slow Death of a Stunning Building
Update: The building continued to sit in a severely deteriorated state in the July of 2018. However, in 2024, the building was stabilized. Sadly, the building was destroyed by the tornado that hit the neighborhood on May 16, 2025. I have no idea what Mr. Titsworth, the owner of this stately storefront and accompanying apartment…
Page Boulevard
Page Boulevard is one of the great avenues that passes straight through North St. Louis, providing a fascinating view straight toward the Mercantile Tower, or whatever it’s called this week. Lining the grand boulevard is an amazing mix of public and private buildings, often loving preserved or severely deteriorating. Much of the housing is abandoned,…
Deteriorating House in Fountain Park
Update: It was probably a funeral home, but it’s demolished now, regardless. I wish I knew the story behind this house; why it is falling apart, and what it was after it was a house. Was it a funeral home? A church?
Fountain Park
Update: I revisited the park in August of 2024. The Fountain Park neighborhood was severely damaged by the tornado in the afternoon of May 16, 2025. I realized I hadn’t been out to take pictures in three weeks, so I headed up to Fountain Park to finally see a unique spot of St. Louis that…