I thought I would choose a single street in the Penrose neighborhood, San Francisco Avenue, and take a look at its entire stretch, starting at the east end at Fair Avenue by Fairground Park and head west. I think this neighborhood is just really beautiful, and not as old as one might think. These two-families…
Tag: Gingerbread Style
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….
Dewey Street Between Meramec Street and Taft Avenue
Leaving behind South 37th Street, we move one over to the west and head down Dewey Street, which reveals some more interesting houses. While the first couple of buildings look standard to Dutchtown, now we are confronted with four-families with some very interesting little gables over the windows. There is a wide variety of brick…
Osceola Street Between South Spring Street and 37th Street
I then cruised down Osceola Street, where I saw something surprising: an abandoned house. It is a rarity in what is other a very healthy neighborhood. It’s also a neat little house. Much of the blocks on Osceola are the sides of houses since they primarily face the north-south street, but we have some nice…
Taft Avenue Between South 37th and 38th Streets
Turning onto Taft Avenue from Grace Avenue, we see more of those more modern housing configurations. The houses above are breaking away from the red brick two bay wide facades with side front doors, as you can see above. And of course, now there are Gingerbread houses popping up. But of course, remember that these…
Balson Avenue East of University City High School
I never give University City enough of its due. I headed down Balson Avenue east of University City High School, itself a work of art, and checked out some of the amazing single family, two family and four family houses a look. The architecture of these houses are just stunning, at a time, from my…
Alabama Avenue Between Blow Street and Loughborough Avenue
This is where it gets interesting, as there is a group of Gingerbread and Tudor Revival houses, similar to what we saw one block over on Vermont Avenue. I suspect there was a large tract of undeveloped land that came open in the 1920s. We then make it to Loughborough Avenue.
North Up Blair Avenue, Hyde Park, May 2026, Part Three
Continuing north up Blair in Hyde Park, we see a Gingerbread house and then the styles go back to what we would expect to see in the neighborhood. Windsor Park was a former quarry, which I’ve talked about before in the past. This little church is still in great condition. But there’s a lot of…
Neosho Street Between January and Macklind Avenues
We continue to the east past January Avenue and the diagonal Wherry Street on Neosho Street, and for awhile we still see Gingerbread style houses. But then something changes, and it’s very obvious, even in the color of the brick and other building materials. We have now gone back at least one or two decades,…
Neosho Street Between Hampton and January Avenues, Part Two
Continuing down the block, we see more of the Gingerbread houses that were typical of the western portion. We reach January Avenue at this point, which like the other north-south streets, is two-way in both directions and does not yield to the east-west one-way streets.