For whatever reason, I thought I would mosey up Louisiana Avenue through Dutchtown on a bright and sunny Saturday recently. Starting down south at Holly Hills, the houses are from the Twentieth Century. And red brick like you see in the Nineteenth Century is rare. You see tan, buff and brick, sometimes mixed together in…
Tag: Gingerbread Style
Flora Terrace, Affton
Only a week before the infamous Stock Market Crash of 1929, a new subdivision was being advertised down Gravois Road, boasting of its quick drive to its intersection of Grand Boulevard. Flora Terrace soon saw the development of the standard architectural styles of the 1930s and 40s, with some later styles thrown in later. I…
Odell Street Between Ivanhoe and Tamm Avenues, North Side
One block south of Marmaduke Street is Odell, which is one of the most fascinating long blocks in the City of St. Louis. Odell was originally named Cleveland in the Breezy Heights Subdivision, but due to the possible confusion with the street of the same name further east, it was renamed. It is lined with…
Marmaduke Avenue Between Ivanhoe and Tamm Avenues
Laid out in 1885, the eastern portion of Breezy Heights (I looked at the western portion cut off by the interstate recently) typified suburban living in the late Nineteenth Century with no alleys, and large lots–and different street names originally and long blocks. We’ll look at Marmaduke first, which is the street two down from…
Fyler Avenue, Lindenwood Park
Fyler Avenue is sort of a main drag that cuts through several neighborhoods west of Kingshighway. The housing styles are all over the place, reflecting the fact that this area was very rural for much of St. Louis’s history. Note above: there is a very old house sitting far back in the lot above. Tract…
Marquette Avenue West of Jamieson Avenue
I’m fascinated by the short, quiet streets tucked in between the River des Peres/Interstate 44 and Jamieson Avenue. Many of the houses are from the late Nineteenth Century, and reflect what would have been distant suburbs from the city at the time. Below is one seriously messed with facade. But I find this area, so…
Southwest Avenue and Environs, Clifton Heights
I’ve been interested in the old Manchester Road, which is now named Southwest Avenue, for awhile now. I looked at another section of this street back in August of 2021. This is in Clifton Heights, so there are some really old homes, and some more recent ones built in the Twentieth Century. The rolling topography…
Lee Avenue Between Marcus and North Newstead Avenues
Things continue to look great crossing over Marcus Avenue as we remain in the Penrose neighborhood heading east on Lee Avenue. A first appears, which is multi-family housing, as seen above. But then some really fascinating and unique Gingerbread houses reappear, and they show designs that I haven’t seen anywhere in the city. There’s even…
Lee Avenue Between North Kingshighway and Marcus Avenue
I had some time to kill, so I decided to explore the entire length of Lee Avenue from North Kingshighway to North Grand Boulevard. While there’s technically four blocks east of Grand, there are not any houses facing the street. At Kingshighway, Lee technically turns to Brown Avenue and enters the Mark Twain Industrial Park….
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Oleatha Avenue Between Oak Hill and Roger Place
You never know what sort of surprises you’ll find when looking around the streets of St. Louis, and in this case I found these unique porches added to the fronts of otherwise common houses. A little bit of a mix of Spanish and Tudor influences, there were only about four or five of these in…