Jumping around a bit, we’re back to the intersection of Morgan Ford and Gravois, and we’ll head south, starting at this replica of a famous landmark in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina. We looked at the intersection before, and saw there was once a row of buildings at the corner that is now a parking lot…
Tag: Gravois Avenue/Road
Gravois Avenue Between Taft and Beethoven Avenues
We’re almost to the end of the portion of Gravois in Bevo, as we approach the viaduct that takes the railroad over the street. Interestingly, there are a large amount of old wood frame houses surviving, often concealed by later brick storefronts built out to the sidewalk line. I like the very strange almost saltbox-like…
Gravois Avenue from Ellenwood to Taft Avenues, Bevo
We’ll take one last look at the building on the southwest corner, and then continue on northeast up Gravois Avenue. We’ve actually looked at this building before because it was once attached to a movie theater to the right, back in October of 2020. The newer mid-Twentieth Century buildings such as the one below replaced…
Gravois Avenue from Neosho Street to Ellenwood Avenue, Bevo
But just as we pass by the open spaces left by the demolition for parking lots, we discover that historic buildings intact for the next block. Terracotta companies mass produced designs that are seen all over the city. So while individual buildings are unique, they can often have the same “flavor” as others throughout the…
Gravois Avenue Between Duke Street and Morgan Ford Road, Bevo
Let’s pass by Duke Street, which I have to admit I’d never heard of before because there are so many short one or two block long streets in this part of Bevo that branch off Gravois Avenue. I think it is probably due to the relatively rugged terrain of the old Christy Estate. But as…
Gravois Avenue Between Gertrude Avenue and Duke Street, Bevo
Continuing on past the large house at the corner of Gertrude Avenue, we see more of the intact street wall along Gravois Avenue. Brightly colored storefronts and restaurants opened by Bosnian immigrants begin to appear, showing how the neighborhood was redeveloped starting in the 1990s. Then we reach Eichelberger Avenue, which is actually a relatively…
Gravois Avenue From Bates Street to Gertrude Avenue, Bevo
Gravois Avenue in Bevo has one of the best preserved commercial strips in the city, and I took a stroll along it a couple weekends ago. Further up Gravois, southwest and northeast of Grand Boulevard, the avenue is scarred by parking lots for car dealerships, while in Bevo there are only a couple, thank the…
New Lease on Life
I was alerted by a valued and longtime reader to the recent commencement of major tuckpointing and masonry rebuilding of the beautiful Second Empire storefront at the diagonal intersection of Lynch, Ohio and Gravois in the Fox Park neighborhood, just to the south of St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Oratory. On-line City records show…
Morgan Ford Between Gravois and Gannett Avenues, Bevo
Let’s head north on Morgan Ford (it seems that it should be two separate words, after all), starting at the intersection of Gravois Avenue and Delor Street. As far as I can tell, the buildings below were demolished on the southeast corner for a parking lot. Can any longtime residents help? Heading north, we pass…
Gravois Avenue Between California and Ohio Avenues, Fox Park
On my way to photographing St. Francis de Sales in the fog, and continuing my slow documentation of Gravois Avenue, having done Tower Grove East to the west a while back, I shot some of the buildings on the north side of that main thoroughfare in Fox Park. This giant Spire, formerly Laclede Gas building…