Jumping over Park Avenue, where the historic fabric of the city has been completely erased, we arrive at a gold mine of houses from the 1870s and 80s. And Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis from 1876 gives us some interesting views of what was there 150 years ago. The first half of the block…
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Geyer Avenue Between California and Ohio Avenues
Heading one block to the north to Geyer Avenue, it would be remiss to not talk about how Interstate 44, the Ozark Expressway, has altered the street forever. As I demonstrated above with the blue shaded area on the Compton and Dry Pictorial St. Louis from 1876, all of that land is now under the…
Allen Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
Heading east of Ohio Avenue on Allen Avenue towards South Jefferson Avenue, there is a wide variety of houses, some older but many on the newer side relatively. This section of street seems to have developed slower. And the houses that are here look to be from the 1890s and 1900s. The house on the…
Ann Avenue Between California and Ohio Avenues
Heading yet another block north, we now head down Ann Avenue from California to Ohio Avenue in the east-west blocks of northeastern Fox Park. We see something new for the first time in this examination: single family houses like one might see Tower Grove Heights over on the long blocks around the intersection of South…
Accomac Street Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
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…
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…