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…
Tag: Apartment Buildings
Cabanne Avenue Between Goodfellow Boulevard and Porter Mall, West End
Two large wood frame houses greeted the visitor when they entered Cabanne Avenue back in 1909; they’re both gone now. I believe those wood frame houses were replaced by these apartments, which in turn were demolished, as well. This block is much harder hit by demolition and vacant lots. There are a few houses left…
Cates Avenue Between Hamilton Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard, West End
You can see the Sanborn map for Cates in between Hamilton Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard from yesterday. There has been a massive amount of demolition and in-fill on this block, but there are still some very nice houses left. In general, there are more brick houses than one block to the north on Cabanne Avenue…
Cabanne Avenue Between Goodfellow Boulevard and Hamilton Avenue, West End, Revisited
The fire insurance map above from 1909 captures an important moment in history for the West End; the neighborhood was still suburban in nature and it was a time before the apartment buildings would be built, taking advantage of the large parcels that once held stately wood frame houses built in the previous decades when…
Emma and Lucille Avenues Between Mimika Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard, Walnut Park West
We save what I found to be the most interesting part of Walnut Park, which is actually older but further away from downtown St. Louis. This is the Jennings Heights Addition, from 1888, almost twenty years older than the West Walnut Park subdivision to the southeast that we looked at previously. As can be seen…
River Roads, Then and Now
It had been awhile since I’d checked in at the site of the former River Roads Mall, and the contrast between 1962 and 2025 cannot be greater. But perhaps it also reflects the changing pattern of suburban shopping; large, anchor-based shopping centers are being demolished and replaced with single parcel stores, each with their own…
Darst-Webbe
Darst-Webbe, which like many housing projects in the United States, is spoken about as a single complex today, but like Pruitt-Igoe on the Near North Side of St. Louis or Cabrini-Green in Chicago, was really two different projects originally. It was built on the grounds of the neighborhood annihilated in the 1940s between Soulard and…
St. Raymond’s Maronite Cathedral
St. Raymond’s began in 1912 a short distance from St. Anthony the Hermit. And like its predecessor, it was inside an old house; in this case it looks to have been a Second Empire duplex shorn of its Mansard roof. The interior of what looks to be a large expansion out the back of the…
Clinton Peabody, Today
Over the next week, we’ll be examining the Near South Side, the area seen above around 1961, and how it has changed over the last eighty years due to government urban renewal plans. Clinton Peabody, built in 1942 on the Near South Side, is being demolished. Long known for crime and entrenched poverty, it will…
California Avenue Between Sidney Street and Russell Boulevard
Working our way north on California Avenue past Sidney Street in Fox Park, we next cross over Shenandoah Avenue. There are later apartment buildings, that may have been delayed in filling in these blocks due to the large number of sinkholes in the area. But there are still plenty of buildings from the late Nineteenth…