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…
Tag: Apartment Buildings
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…
Page Boulevard Between Clarendon and Academy Avenues
Clarendon Avenue actually only intersects Page Boulevard to the south in a T-bone, so the block is continuous on the north side of the street. We see something new: four-family apartment buildings. We also see vacant lots, as well, unfortunately. But there are many houses still occupied. What is interesting to see how the houses…
Page Boulevard Between Union Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue
Jumping ahead to the east a bit, we cross over Union Boulevard, looking to the north to a very nice but abandoned six family apartment building to the north. Again, we see more tract houses and two-families built before 1909. But I really love the house above with the big rounded Romanesque arch on the…
Maple Avenue Between Maple Place and Hamilton Avenue
Continuing on to the east on Maple Avenue past Maple Place in the West End, we see more of the typical housing stock for the neighborhood. Many houses are three story, such as the one in the upper right, which is only seen in this area north of Delmar. I’ve always liked this apartment building…
South Seventh Boulevard Between Barton Street and Shenandoah Avenue, West Side
I looked at a segment of the west side of South Seventh Boulevard (remember, the east side was annihilated for the widening of the major traffic artery back in the mid Twentieth Century) in November of 2025, so I thought I would photograph more of the surviving and reconstructed urban fabric to the south, heading…
Twenty-Three Years of Paul McKee: Hyde Park
Hyde Park was never in the footprint of the Northside TIF, but I can’t help think that it was affected by the disruption that was occurring in the neighborhoods to the south. This neighborhood is really suffering from the effects of abandonment, and the City’s reliance on McKee’s plans diverted attention from residents’ real needs…
Old North, January 2026
As Charles Dickens said in one of my favorite books, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Let’s get the worst of times out of the way first up in Old North. This act of deprivation committed against what was and could be a beautiful building on Hebert Street (I…
Minerva Avenue Between Hamilton Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard, Revisited Yet Again
After checking out the West End, I realized I was close to that block of Minerva Avenue I liked so much, so I thought it was time to see how it was doing. The answer: not good. Compared to the first time I saw the block, which is now eleven(!) years ago in January of…
Bartmer Avenue Between Hodiamont and Hamilton Avenues, West End
I’ve looked at Bartmer Avenue in the Chamberlain Addition several times over the years, starting all the way back in April of 2012. This is Gamble’s Second Subdivision of Rose Hill, from 1871, which shows just how early this area was originally platted. We’re going to start at close to the city limits at Hodiamont…