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…
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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…
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Oleatha Avenue Between Bent and Oak Hill Avenues
Tower Grove South was still being built up in the southwest corner well into the 1930s, as these Cape Cod houses attest. There are also Gingerbread style houses, as well, which were being built to the southwest in the rapidly expanding St. Louis Hills neighborhood. This subdivision is the Russell’s Second Addition, and while it…
Weird and Wonderful Tower Grove South: Phillips Avenue East of Oak Hill Avenue
Phillips Avenue is another street that alludes to the early roots of Tower Grove South, with many wood frame houses from the Nineteenth Century, mixed in with early Twentieth Century suburban style homes. I have always been intrigued by the small house below, sitting all the way back on the lot. I have to believe…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Courtois Street and Koeln Avenue, Carondelet
Whoa, wait a minute, I thought, what’s going on here? Why are there are a bunch of houses from the 1940s and later on the next block between Courtois and Schrimer? The explanation is easy, coming from old fire insurance maps; this was the Reiss-Rapp Lumber Company, and it clearly was later redeveloped as housing…
Hammett Place
Hammett Place is one of those special places that I found on accident and that I suspect most people in the St. Louis region have never heard of before. Whilte technically part of a neighborhood created by the City government in the late Twentieth Century called Kingsway East, it’s tucked away on the edge of…
Penrose, July 2022, Part Three, Anderson Avenue and Environs
Like St. Louis Hills or North Pointe, the housing styles continue to vary from Cape Cods to even very simple versions of the Colonial Revival. The streets are quiet and there were only people mowing and tending their garden when I went by in the morning. And of course, there are large number of Gingerbread…
Blair Avenue Between Newhouse and Angelica Streets, West Side
Speaking of anomalies, and I always tell people to watch out for this, if you ever seen a cluster of newer houses in a neighborhood of much older housing stock in a part of the city that was platted out early, you need to be curious. In this instance, we are looking at the west…
Ohio Avenue Between Chippewa and Winnebago Streets, Gravois Park
Crossing over Chippewa, we enter Gravois Park, which is really just northern Dutchtown. There are many older houses in the Greek Revival style, including this corner building. Interestingly, there is this Second Empire house built along the street and alley. There are some more nice houses, spanning the decades around the year 1900. But like…