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 Morgan Ford Road to Neosho Street, Bevo

Moving past the intersection of Morgan Ford and Delor, we hit a stretch of Gravois that is substantially marred by demolition for parking lots, While the Bevo Mill carefully follows the contours of the wedge-shaped block where it sits, ironically there is a giant parking lot behind it that once served the popular restaurant. Across…

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…

Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part Two

North of Pestalozzi, there is an interesting mix of houses past the corner store that appears to have been converted into an apartment. It is a quiet street because it dead ends at Magnolia Avenue. I’ve looked at many of the oldest houses on the next block, back in September of 2015, including the one…

Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part One

Moving past the intersection of Gravois, Arsenal and Pennsylvania, which I’ve looked at in June of 2011, May of 2014 and 2019, we pass by the Grant School, which I looked at back in October of 2020, we pass through a very old section of Tower Grove East that I first looked at way back…

Iowa Avenue Opposite St. Francis de Sales

The west side of Iowa Avenue in between Lynch Street (which continues as sort of an afterthought west of Gravois) and Sidney Street opposite of St. Francis de Sales has some interesting houses. The first house above has an explanation of why it sits at an angle. It was most likely built before the addition…