I realized that I had never looked at California Avenue in Fox Park, just like I had never looked like Pennsylvania Avenue north of Cherokee Street in Benton Park West. This part of Fox Park was a wild and undeveloped section of the St. Louis Commons, filled with crevices, ponds and sinkholes. We’ll look at…
Tag: Apartment Buildings
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Wyoming and Juniata Streets
Crossing over Wyoming Street in Benton Park West, we see this massive corner store building, which certainly had a large space above for the family who owned the business below. It even seems to have had a substantial living space on the third floor. This building was most likely built for and lived in by…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Utah and Wyoming Streets
Crossing Utah Street, we continue north up Pennsylvania Avenue in Benton Park West, looking at the houses and apartment buildings that grew up after streetcar service arrived from downtown. It’s interesting to see how houses have been altered, whether a metal cornice has been removed, or when a porch has probably been altered. Then there…
Cook Avenue, JeffVanderLou
I was up this way a couple of weeks ago and there were a bunch of streets blocked off so I ended up detouring on some side streets, including Cook Avenue. I saw some interesting houses, so I came back a couple weeks later to look some more. For whatever reason, some of the streets…
Maple Avenue, Maplewood
We then turn onto Maple Avenue, still part of the original Maplewood Subdivision, and see more suburban style Nineteenth Century houses. But then as we approach Sutton Boulevard, higher density housing appears. This is the amazing, Colonial Revival(?) Colonial House apartment building. That’s some nice Mid-Century Modern type font. A more traditional early Twentieth Century…
Lohmeyer Avenue and Oakview Terrace, Maplewood
Heading up Sutton Boulevard around the giant grocery store parking lot, we turn right onto Lohmeyer Avenue, part of the Lohmeyer Heights Addition. I am curious about this house, as it looks like it is older than the rest of the homes in the addition. Was it the Lohmeyer house? I’m curious if anyone knows….
Missouri Avenue Between Lynch and Sidney Streets
Heading north of Lynch Street, we continue north on Missouri Avenue. There’s this very old house above, and then a whole line of Second Empire houses. This house below was built before the street was graded, as can be seen by the heavily exposed foundation. Then we reach Sidney Street, which we looked at back…
Missouri Avenue Between Crittenden and Lynch Streets
I’ve only looked at a small portion of Missouri Avenue in Benton Park, the portion between Arsenal and Pestalozzi back in June of 2020. We’ll retread a bit of the portion between Crittenden and Pestalozzi, and then continue north into new territory. There are a lot of Second Empire houses, as would be expected. And…
Wells Avenue Between Academy Avenue and Union Boulevard
I’ll have to admit when I got home and actually looked at the photographs I had taken of this street, I was very disheartened. I have photographed the twin apartment buildings above twice, once back in May of 2012 (badly) and again in August of 2015. I also photographed these two just really beautiful twins…
Muscatine, Iowa, Part Two
Downtown Muscatine was really nice, with most of the storefronts occupied and many buildings looking like they had recently been renovated. As would be expected, there are a plethora of Italianate storefronts, as one often sees in cities along the river. The Laurel Building, below, was built in 1917 and was designed by William Hyland…