I supposedly visited Chamberlain Avenue in between Clara and Belt avenues back in August of 2009, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out where half of the photos I included in that post seventeen years ago are actually from. A couple really are from Chamberlain Avenue, but the others–who knows. Anyway, I…
Tag: Apartment Buildings
Chamberlain Avenue Between Goodfellow Boulevard and Clara Avenue, West End
Chamberlain Avenue between Goodfellow and Clara is in a much better state of preservation than other parts of the West End. The houses are a mix of wood and brick. And there is a mix of architecture styles. There is some good news; I briefly looked at Chamberlain Avenue back in April of 2021 and…
Hyde Park, 2011, From the Vault, Part Two
Here are more photographs from the vault. This is south of Salisbury Street in Hyde Park, I can tell. Things have gotten better with the filling in of vacant lots, but there have also been demolitions.
Around the Former Plaza Theater, West End
It’s hard to believe it, but I first photographed the former Plaza Theater way back in April of 2009, when we were first starting to explore the West End and points to the north, such as Hamilton Heights and Wells-Goodfellow by heading up Clara Avenue. Today, it’s the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, which has occupied…
Enright Avenue Between Porter Mall and Clara Avenue, West End
I somehow forgot to go down Enright Avenue west of Ruth Porter Mall, but here is the street east of there. It is perhaps a portent of what the West End would have become if the City had not lost out to the suburbs: increasingly dense with apartments replacing single family homes built earlier in…
Cates Avenue Between Porter Mall and Clara Avenue, West End
Before we get up to Cates Avenue, we’ll look at a couple of buildings down on Clemens Avenue, such as this apartment building. We’ve looked at Clemens Avenue east of Clara Avenue, back in April of 2019. We looked at Cates Avenue west of Porter Mall back in late November. To the east of the…
Cabanne Avenue Between Porter Mall and Belt Avenue, West End
I want you to understand that with the exception of the two houses you see below, every other single house on Cabanne Avenue in the fire insurance map above is gone. Sorry to go on a tirade, but this is what happens when you let government go crazy and implement its vainglorious ideas on entire…
Maple Avenue Between Clara and Belt Avenues, West End, Revisited
I realized I had so much fun revisiting the West End a couple of weeks ago that I decided to go back. This time I tried to hit blocks on the east side of the Ruth E. Porter Mall (read about Porter here). The two houses below are on the other side of the street…
Clemens Avenue Between Hodiamont and Hamilton Avenues, West End
We looked at the Sanborn for this block yesterday, which showed that by 1909 was already largely built out. It’s a mix of wood frame and brick homes, many of which show the rehabbing that has occurred in the last ten years in the West End. Perhaps what is most noteworthy is the wide range…
Enright Avenue Between Hodiamont and Hamilton Avenues, West End
Originally known as Von Versen but changed due to anti-German sentiment, we’ll now look at the last block of Enright between Hodiamont, basically the last street of the West End and Hamilton Avenue. In the winter of 1887, Julius Pitzman was platting the Hamilton Place Addition. But as can be seen in the above fire…