Constructed in 1927, the Winston Churchill Apartments are located at the northeast corner of Cabanne Avenue and Belt Avenue. Like many of the large apartment buildings I’ve been looking at in the West End area and neighboring streets, this was another upscale address that replaced what had originally been suburban frame and brick country and…
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St. Louis Avenue Between North 23nd and North 25rd Streets, South Side
Moving west of North 23rd Street, we see much less lavish homes. And if we look closely many, but not all, are actually two-family houses. I always joke in St. Louis architects designed multi-family houses to look like single families. Of course, there are obvious multi-family apartment buildings like the ones below. But as I’ve…
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….
Dewey Street Between Meramec Street and Taft Avenue
Leaving behind South 37th Street, we move one over to the west and head down Dewey Street, which reveals some more interesting houses. While the first couple of buildings look standard to Dutchtown, now we are confronted with four-families with some very interesting little gables over the windows. There is a wide variety of brick…
Former Pet Milk Building
The former Pet, Inc. headquarters building at 400 South Fourth Street was originally built in 1969. It was designed by the supposedly noted architect A.L. Aydelott. When completed, it was 300,000 square feet and cost $7,500,000 to construct. It has now been converted into apartments and rebranded .400, a baseball reference owing to its proximity…
Gustine Avenue, Tower Grove South
I’ve become intrigued by the physical forms of neighborhoods where the dominant orientation of buildings face only one orientation. For example, in Tower Grove South, houses and apartments face north or south on east-west streets, even at the intersections with the north-south arteries. But…there are disobedient houses on those north-south arteries that choose to face…
Meramec Street Between Ohio Avenues and South Grand Boulevard, South Side, Dutchtown
I’ve looked at the north side of Meramec Street in Dutchtown extensively, in two groups of posts that start here and here, but I’ve never looked at the south side except here and there with individual buildings. Let’s start at South Broadway and work our way west. Thanks to Found St. Louis, I learned the…
Rukovina Tower, East St. Louis, Abandoned
Back in December of 2019, I had taken stock of the last two towers left after the demolition of two of the Lansdowne Tower pubic housing project. One of the two remaining towers had already been boarded up, but the fourth, the Rukovina Tower, was still occupied. Now both of them are boarded up to…
South Ninth Street Between Emmet and Soulard Streets, Soulard
The next block between Emmett and today’s Soulard Street (Lafayette and Soulard would flip later in the Nineteenth Century) was already filled with houses. But interestingly, many of them have changed in form and style. The two churches are still standing; No. 2 was the German Presbyterian Church before it became Most Holy Trinity Slovak…
Demolition, The Chesterfield
Unlike most of the area south of Delmar Boulevard which is being repaired following the May 16, 2026 tornado, there was one building, the Chesterfield, that was not so lucky. Hit by the twister and then damaged further by a fire on January 24, 2026, the building was condemned for demolition. I caught a photo…