Editor’s Note: Due to the malfunctioning of St. Louis Patina in mid-January 2022, the original text of this post was lost. In the future, the commentary will be rewritten, but in the meantime, the post’s photos that survived the website crash will be presented as is.
Tag: Gingerbread Style
North Newstead Avenue, Penrose
I’ve long been interested in the diagonal streets and rugged terrain of the northeastern corner of the Penrose neighborhood. At the intersection of North Newstead and Carter avenues is the old Christian Hospital, which is now the Prince Hall Senior Services Center. Like many hospitals, Christian moved out to the suburbs. Heading north up Newstead,…
North on Compton Avenue #4: Gravois Park from Winnebago to Miami Streets, Revisited
This next stretch of Compton Avenue is really spectacular, with a wide variety of housing stock. See the east side of the street from June of 2017. You can see the west side here. There are more one-story bungalows, built as a tract, but I always find it interesting how they change and diversify over…
The Neighborhood Around St. John the Baptist, Revisited
Just as I had done back in 2013, after I had looked at St. John the Baptist, I also photographed the streets near the church. I realized there had in fact been some changes. For example, above, looking down Adkins Street (last photograph in the old post), the lot on the left shows where the…
Iowa Avenue Between Crittenden and Pestalozzi Streets, Benton Park West, Fall 2020
Cutting down Crittenden Street, we come across the longtime former home of Southside Early Childhood Center, which is now located at Jefferson and Russell. They have been helping children for generations in the City. The rest of the block is an eclectic mix of houses that tend to the early Twentieth Century for years of…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 45: Virginia Avenue Between Osceola and Meramec Streets
Virginia Avenue starts to get really interesting as the grade begins to climb as we head up the hill towards Meramec Street. On the left, we see the huge mass of the long-abandoned Cleveland High School, which has suffered a series of arsons in the last year. The Public Schools found such as large parcel…
Glen Echo Park
Glen Echo Park? Wow, I missed that one, I said to myself last week, so I went and checked it out. It is one street, and one alley that goes behind houses that face the fairways of Glen Echo Country Club. It is truly a fascinating example of one of the smallest subdivisions-turned-towns in North…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 31: Louisiana Avenue Between Meramec and Gasconade Streets, West Side
We’re picking up the “The Beauty of Dutchtown” series which was left off at Number 30. Louisiana Avenue between Meramec and Gasconade streets is an interesting street in that it seems to have largely been built by 1908, which is relatively early for this part of Dutchtown. Just north of the old streetcar route on…
Former Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church and Baden Elementary School
The former Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church is a mighty structure, stretching for a considerable length down the west side of Annetta Avenue at the intersection of that street with Halls Ferry Road and Veronica Avenue. It was originally founded at a different location in Baden in 1871 or 1872, and closed…
The Beauty of Dutchtown, Part 25: Osceola Street Between Nebraska and California Avenues
Osceola Street, due to the superblock that was the former Maryville campus and right-of-way for I-55, is the first through east-west through street west into Dutchtown from South Broadway south of Meramec Street. Consequently, there is a lot of high speed traffic, which is unfortunate, as there are many beautiful houses in between Nebraska and…