Crossing over Winnebago Street, we look at the west side of the 3600 block of Ohio Avenue opposite Holy Cross Lutheran Church, which I’ve looked at twice before here and here. I’ve actually looked at the west side of this block twice before, as well, back in February of 2011 and March of 2016. This…
Tag: Gravois Park
Ohio Avenue Between Chippewa and Winnebago Streets, Gravois Park
Crossing over Chippewa, we enter Gravois Park, which is really just northern Dutchtown. There are many older houses in the Greek Revival style, including this corner building. Interestingly, there is this Second Empire house built along the street and alley. There are some more nice houses, spanning the decades around the year 1900. But like…
The Kaletta Statuary Company
The Kaletta Statuary Company once dominated the religious sculpture and furnishings business in St. Louis from their shop on a stretch of the 3700 block of California Avenue in Gravois Park. In fact, if you go into any Roman Catholic church in St. Louis built before the 1950s, you’ll probably see some of their work….
Former Lutheran Hospital, Boarded Up
Update: News reports in the fall of 2023 state that the hospital had been the target of extensive scrapping and metal theft. In contrast to Barnes-Jewish-Children’s Hospital, which is constantly demolishing, rebuilding and expanding, when we head to the South Side, we discover that the old Lutheran Hospital, whose original post is one of my…
North on Compton Avenue #5: Gravois Park from Potomac to Cherokee Streets, Revisited
Past the park, we then cross over Potomac Street. See the east side of the street in this post (first photo only). See the west side at this post. There is now a community garden where a burned house sat for years; you can see it in the second photo at this post from November…
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…
North on Compton Avenue #3: Gravois Park from Chippewa to Winnebago Streets, Revisited
Crossing over Chippewa and past an invasive parking lot, we see this first house that was recently rehabbed after sitting vacant for years. See the east side of the street from June of 2017. You can see the west side here. Again, there are more of those wood frame houses mixed in with later brick…
Ten Years Gone, Gravois Park
I found a couple of old photos from about a decade ago of two corner storefronts in Gravois Park, a neighborhood that has undergone rapid and major changes in the last twenty years. Older residents have told me it had become more dangerous over the course of the new millennium, but now rampant real estate…
The Crossroads of the World: Grand and Gravois
Inspired by a World Wide Magazine visit to the intersection of Grand and Gravois, I photographed the old South Side National Bank. It’s been turned into condos or apartments. It was going to be demolished for a Walgreen’s but cooler heads prevailed. It’s sort of St. Louis’s own shorter version of the Empire State Building….
Chippewa Street, Then and Now
I know I swore sometime back in 2007 or 2008 that I would never let St. Louis Patina become one of those “St. Louis Then and Now” sites, instead focusing on the here and now, and how historic architecture influences the world today. That being said, sometimes it’s fun to do a comparison of old…