I’ve looked at Washington Boulevard before west of North Jefferson Avenue, but I took another look a few weeks ago. Nothing has happened at the Jamison Memorial Church since the fire. Above is Central Baptist Church, an African American congregation which is over 180 years old, and I’ve always like its current Modernist home. This…
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Auditorium Details, Fox Theater
Finally, we’ll look at some of the details of the ornament in the main auditorium.
The Auditorium, Fox Theater
Moving into what I call the auditorium, for lack of a better term for the theater’s main room for viewing movies, musicals or music, we see more of the elaborate architecture.
The Lobby, Fox Theater
I’ve looked at the exterior of the Fox Theater before, way back in June of 2010, but I’ve never looked at the interior. We’ll start with the lobby. Designed by Charles Howard Crane and opening on January 31, 1929, the photograph above was probably commissioned right before or after the premiere of the lavish movie…
Third Baptist Church, Revisited
Third Baptist Church is an interesting situation, where the interior is much older than the exterior, which was renovated in 1950. The interior dates from 1885. But as can be seen in the apse, there is rich woodwork, stained dark contrasting with the stonework.
The Mallinckrodt Residences
As the Mallinckrodt family’s fortunes grew, so did their houses. Emil’s farm house wasn’t too shabby, and seems to have survived into the Twentieth Century. A Greek Revival center hall house, it acquired a Queen Anne style front porch in the late Nineteenth Century. It was demolished at some point, I estimate, in the early…
Sheldon Memorial
The Sheldon Memorial was built in 1912 for the Ethical Society according to designs of the architect Louis Clemens Spiering. Spiering is actually a very interesting figure, having participated in the design of the 1904 World’s Fair, as well as being a descendant of the famous German Marxist Karl Ludwig Bernays. St. Louis, as pretty…
Locust Street Between Former North Channing and Cardinal Avenues
Back in September, we looked at Washington Boulevard in Midtown, and its transformation in the early Twentieth Century from a tony residential neighborhood into a commercial district. One block to the south is Locust Street, which like Washington, stretches from downtown where it ends at Theresa Avenue (though Washington continues, of course). Locust, seen above…
New Masonic Temple, Redeveloped
I never thought I’d see it, but the New Masonic Temple on Lindell has been successfully redeveloped into apartments, known as the B on Lindell. Not surprisingly, due to its massive size, its interior had never been completed, so the recent renovation was probably working with blank space in much of the building. It’s still…
The Mysterious Long Lost Phillip Gibson Stone House
Every so often I come across something completely strange and mysterious, and in this case it is a survivor, a stone house located in the back of a lot in Midtown near the right-of-way of Highway 40, and long since obliterated like the neighborhood that grew up around it, leaving no trace of its existence…