Heading east of Ohio Avenues on Accomac Street towards South Jefferson, we continue to see two family houses. The architectural styles are hard to quantify; take for example, above, where there is a little point sticking up above the pediment. Overall, the houses look more or less the same, and it can be seen that…
Tag: Apartment Buildings
Armand Place Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues, Revisited
Moving along east of Ohio Avenue in the former St. Louis Commons on Armand Place, we see the continued unity of style consistent with being built in a relatively short period of time in the late 1880s and early 1890s as part of the Sarpy’s Partition of the DeVolsey Tract. I looked at this block…
Armand Place Between California and Ohio Avenues
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be looking at the east-west streets in Fox Park and Compton Hill in between California and South Jefferson Avenues. We’ll start in the south with Armand Place and work our way north, ending with Hickory Avenue in the north. This first block is the Sarpy’s Subdivision…
Neosho Street Between Brannon Avenue and Kingshighway, Part One
Heading east from the southern end of Brannon Avenue, we see a rarity on this street, which is a four-family that is more typical of neighborhoods to the east. But then we reach the northern end of the dogleg of Brannon, and the houses turn back to what is typical along this stretch of Neosho….
About Those Painted Houses
Back in January of this year, I covered just one of what are dozens of houses that were painted a horrible burgundy color by a shadowy company operating out of Fort Knox, Kentucky. As Ryan Krull reports in St. Louis Magazine, it was all part of a giant Ponzi scheme, as well as other criminal…
Page Boulevard Between Academy Avenue and Kingshighway, Part Two
Looking at the eastern half of the block of Page Boulevard just to the west of Kingshighway, we see more congestion and more vacant houses and lots. Again, we see houses built in tracts, such as the two homes below. I’ve looked at more of Page Boulevard east of Kingshighway in these posts from March…
Page Boulevard Between Clarendon and Academy Avenues
Clarendon Avenue actually only intersects Page Boulevard to the south in a T-bone, so the block is continuous on the north side of the street. We see something new: four-family apartment buildings. We also see vacant lots, as well, unfortunately. But there are many houses still occupied. What is interesting to see how the houses…
Page Boulevard Between Union Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue
Jumping ahead to the east a bit, we cross over Union Boulevard, looking to the north to a very nice but abandoned six family apartment building to the north. Again, we see more tract houses and two-families built before 1909. But I really love the house above with the big rounded Romanesque arch on the…
Maple Avenue Between Maple Place and Hamilton Avenue
Continuing on to the east on Maple Avenue past Maple Place in the West End, we see more of the typical housing stock for the neighborhood. Many houses are three story, such as the one in the upper right, which is only seen in this area north of Delmar. I’ve always liked this apartment building…
South Seventh Boulevard Between Barton Street and Shenandoah Avenue, West Side
I looked at a segment of the west side of South Seventh Boulevard (remember, the east side was annihilated for the widening of the major traffic artery back in the mid Twentieth Century) in November of 2025, so I thought I would photograph more of the surviving and reconstructed urban fabric to the south, heading…