I know I’ve photographed these apartment buildings before, but for the life of me I can’t find that post now. But what is there to say? It’s totally depressing. Almost everything on this street is abandoned and deteriorating, and there is nothing being done about it. This one building below looks to be the only…
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JeffVanderLou and St. Louis Place, Early Summer 2023
Heading east of St. Louis Avenue, I looked at the north side of that thoroughfare, having looked at the south of the street in two parts, here and here back in July of 2022. There is still a large part of JeffVanderLou west of North Grand Boulevard, even if most of the huge neighborhood is…
The Greater Ville, Early Summer 2023
I also wanted to check up on the Greater Ville, primarily heading east down Ashland Avenue, the major east-west street two blocks south of Natural Bridge Avenue. The photos above and below are from the 4500 block of Ashland, which I looked at way back in January of 2019. The houses below are in the…
Wells-Goodfellow, Early Summer 2023, Part One
Crossing over MLK, I headed to one of the more interesting streets in Wells-Goodfellow, the 5600 block of Labadie. After passing by the western end of the block, which is still somewhat inhabited, we get to those four-family apartment buildings, which have always fascinated me, but even more so now that I recently discovered a…
Hamilton Heights, Early Summer 2023
We dive into the Hamilton Heights neighborhood at the corner of Hamilton and Minerva avenues, where on the northwestern corner “New” St. Augustine’s stands. I next headed east on Minerva down the hill, where there is that extraordinary row of four-family apartment buildings. I’ve documented them before in January of 2015, September of 2019 and…
The West End, Early Summer 2023
The West End neighborhood is one of my favorite parts of the city, and I recently went back to explore some more. I discovered that while many streets are seeing revitalization, there are others just east of the border with St. Louis County that are struggling with abandonment. These houses are off of streets such…
Southwest and Northeast of Downtown, Galesburg, Illinois
Heading southwest down Louisville Road, I spotted one of the grain elevators that line the train tracks in Galesburg. Now owned by ADM, it possesses one of the largest grain silos I have ever seen, at least in diameter. I worked my way back up on Monmouth Boulevard, which connects the center of town with…
Fire at the Former St. Liborius, SK8 Liborius
The unthinkable happened late on the night of June 28. The former St. Liborius Roman Catholic Church, which had been closed in 1992 by the Archdiocese. It became SK8 Liborius approximately ten years ago. The people behind SK8 Liborius had been working tirelessly over that time to fix up the former church, and I had…
A Foreboding Demolition, Gravois Park
Update: I discovered another nearby LRA property at 3643 South Compton in similar rough condition. I was shocked to discover a demolition occurring on the 3600 block of South Compton Avenue in the Gravois Park neighborhood. While the area is undergoing wild speculation from out-of-state buyers, it is also dealing with entrenched poverty and crime….
Neighborhood Gardens
Designed by architect Joseph Murphy of the firm of Hoener, Baume and Froese and opening in 1935, Neighborhood Gardens is a historic public housing project in the Columbus Square neighborhood just north of downtown. It is historic in that is the first example of the wealthy coming in with good intentions, clear-cutting a whole city…