I like these duplexes, where two houses are built along a party wall. Wrapping around onto Jefferson north of Shenandoah, the beautiful street wall, so well preserved along this stretch, continues.
Tag: Fox Park
Shenandoah Avenue In Between Ohio and Jefferson, Part 1
Fox Park is an amazing neighborhood, full of some very old houses from the 187os up to the 1920s. Streets south of Russell Boulevard were working class, with stout Italianate and Second Empire houses. I visited this block back in 2013.
Church of Christ, Shenandoah Avenue
I love this building’s transformation over the years. What was clearly a four-family flat at some point received a baby-blue coat of paint, and then received a front staircase in what looks like the 1970s. Glass-block windows were installed at some point, and the four front doors were ripped out at some point and replaced…
Gravois Avenue, Tower Grove East
Update: See the intersection in 2014 and 2019. Up at the crest of the hill at Arsenal Street, Pennsylvania and Gravois avenues, the buildings are affected by the roar of traffic flying by. Widened in the early decades of the Twentieth Century, Gravois is now the equivalent of seven lanes wide through here. Many buildings…
Northern Fox Park
The quiet blocks of Fox Park, just north of Russell Blvd and south of I-44, feature a bevy of beautiful houses from as early as the 1870s to the early Twentieth Century. Below, houses I might expect to see in Baltimore line the street. Older Italianate and Second Empire houses also point to the neighborhood’s…
Fox Park Early Vernacular, Revisited
Update: I went back in the late summer of 2019. I really like the houses on Ohio just north of St. Francis de Sales Church in Fox Park, which I examined in part of this earlier post. I think I finally figured out the deal with the house below; just as in other parts of…
Shenandoah and California
Fox Park has an amazing mix of housing styles, from these “micro-mansions” with their Second Empire stylings to more simple but beautiful Italianate row houses. The view is always great from the park, too. These early Twentieth Century apartment buildings are unique in that it’s 1.5 buildings, not one or two. Normally there are double…
Russell Boulevard, Fox Park, Revisited
Russell Boulevard, passing from Soulard to Grand has some of the most interesting housing stock in the city. It serves almost as a history lesson of St. Louis architecture, crossing through the Nineteenth Century. When these houses were constructed in 1887, Russell’s development had made it to Fox Park. Can you imagine what our city…