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…
Tag: Apartment Buildings
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…
Grace Avenue Between Meramec and Osceola Streets, Dutchtown
I’ve become intrigued with the so-called South St. Louis Suburb, a giant swath of area platted on July 14, 1858 by the surveyor Salomon (anybody have any information on him?). It was deep in the conutry, far from where the City and consisted of dozens of blocks on either side of South Grand Boulevard, itself…
Harlan Court, The Long Apartment Buildings
Harlan Court has always been that apartment complex that pops up in the news every five years or so for the wrong reasons. It’s inexcusable that there are still so many buildings owned by out-of-state slumlords who hold on to once august addresses. (I checked and there was a Citizens’ Service Bureau complaint for a…
Savoy Court
You might have missed Savoy Court while watching for errant driers at the intersection of Delmar and Union boulevards, but if you look closely at the northwest corner, you’ll see a modern entrance to what is an interesting little street laid out in 1909. What was originally six apartment buildings, starting this one at the…
5600 Block of Labadie, Wells-Goodfellow, Summer of 2026
I specifically set out to try and find another block to explore other than the 5600 block of Labadie Avenue, but then I went and drove down it anyway. The first part to the west I first explored back in March of 2017. It’s in rough shape. Most of the buildings, some of which were…