I photographed Affton way back in 2008, almost exactly ten years ago from when this photograph was taken.
Tag: Gravois Avenue/Road
Ziegenhein Funeral Home
Logically, many funeral homes are located across the street from major churches or cemeteries, such as the Ziegenhein Funeral Home. I photographed it before back in 2016.
Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery
Update: Readers interested in seeing the plat maps with boundaries of this cemetery can reference them in this post about the neighboring New Picker’s/Gatewood Gardens Cemetery (scroll down to the bottom). Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery lies just inside the city limits of St. Louis; there is a small neighborhood in between it and the River…
Louis Obert Monument, New St. Marcus Cemetery
I can’t imagine that Louis Obert was not thinking of his fellow beer baron Anton Griesedieck’s monument in Bellefontaine Cemetery when commissioning his own grave in New St. Marcus Cemetery, where the stepson of Adam Lemp and his family is buried. The Moll Monument, also in Bellefontaine, could easily have been inspiration. His brewery was…
New Mount Sinai Cemetery
Wow, I just discovered one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the St. Louis area, and also one of the oldest: New Mount Sinai Cemetery, located just beyond the city limits out Gravois, where there are of course many other burial grounds. The heart of the cemetery is a cluster of mausolea of various architectural…
Sunset Memorial Park, Revisited
I visited Sunset Memorial Park, out Gravois Road in the sunshine of early July 2018. I am still impressed by the massive columbarium, which sits towards the back of the cemetery. There is also a very pretty office and residence up towards the entrance with dark red brick and green glazed roof tile.
Otto Lemp and Family, New St. Marcus Cemetery
Adam Lemp’s third wife had a daughter from an earlier marriage that later married a Gottfried Pfaff. They both died, so Adam raised his step-grandson, Otto, who eventually unofficially took the Lemp name. He’s buried in an unrelated family plot out in New St. Marcus Cemetery in Affton. He seems to have little relations with…
Beaux-Arts Bank, Jefferson and Gravois
It’s easy to miss the beautiful bank on the southeast corner of the bustling intersection of Jefferson and Gravois. Originally constructed in 1925, it was renovated in 1956, and the annex, now a separate business, was built in 1979
Gravois Avenue, Tower Grove East
Update: See the intersection in 2014 and 2019. Up at the crest of the hill at Arsenal Street, Pennsylvania and Gravois avenues, the buildings are affected by the roar of traffic flying by. Widened in the early decades of the Twentieth Century, Gravois is now the equivalent of seven lanes wide through here. Many buildings…
Old Gardenville Elementary School
More Tudor Revival splendor at the intersection of Kingshighway and Gravois, at the old Ittner-Milligan school that is now a charter school. The building is shaped like a cursive letter V, and uses the odd shaped plot of land in its design. Update: Added historic photograph of the school in July of 2020.