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…
Tag: Gingerbread Style
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
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.
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…