It’s a little late, but here are the odds and ends for the summer of 2026. Above, I snapped this photo of the wall of industry you spot as you pass under the Bellerive Bridge into Carondelet southbound on Broadway. Above is the vanished Twenty-First Street Bridge over the Mill Creek Valley. It is one…
Tag: Houses
St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church, Krakow, Franklin County
Moving east on Highway YY, we reach the unincorporated community of Krakow, which was historically Polish American. St. Gertrude’s was founded in 1846. The church building is quite old; the original building was constructed in 1856 with the tower being built and altered in the following decades. As you can see below, the nave was…
Casco Methodist Church, Leslie, Franklin County
Located near Ebenezer Lutheran Church, we find Casco Methodist Church. The original rubble stone church, most likely dating from 1871, has a more contemporary narthex built out the front, probably built in 2002 The back wall of the church is unadorned except for two tie rods. The cemetery is large, with what looks to be…
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Franklin County
Originally known as the Evangelisch Lutheran Bethlehem Kirche, this congregation was organized in 1852. It is now part of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. As can be seen on the front facade, the current church is from 1919, which makes sense stylistically. If you were wondering what U.A.C. stands for, it is Unaltered…
St. Louis Avenue Between North 23nd and North 25rd Streets, South Side
Moving west of North 23rd Street, we see much less lavish homes. And if we look closely many, but not all, are actually two-family houses. I always joke in St. Louis architects designed multi-family houses to look like single families. Of course, there are obvious multi-family apartment buildings like the ones below. But as I’ve…
St. Louis Avenue Between North 22nd and North 23rd Streets, South Side
While I’ve looked at St. Louis Avenue numerous times over the last eighteen years, I’ve never actually published any photographs of the south side of the street in St. Louis Place (except for ones that have all been demolished and this one weird one). We’ll start at North 22nd Street and work west. First up,…
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….
Dewey Street Between Meramec Street and Taft Avenue
Leaving behind South 37th Street, we move one over to the west and head down Dewey Street, which reveals some more interesting houses. While the first couple of buildings look standard to Dutchtown, now we are confronted with four-families with some very interesting little gables over the windows. There is a wide variety of brick…
South 37th Street Between Bingham Avenue and Meramec Street
Not everything is nice and neat on South 37th Street, however. We were heading north on the street, and all of the sudden the houses go backwards in style by about a decade or so, with the bungalows more typical of Dutchtown to the east of South Grand Boulevard. Whoever built these cornices apparently didn’t…
South 37th Street Between Taft and Bigham Avenues
Back in mid-August, I discovered the peaceful and architecturally rich streets southwest of the intersection of South Grand Boulevard and Meramec Street (you can start looking at those posts here). I came back to explore some more, this time first looking at South 37th Street. Numbered streets west of Jefferson Avenue are a bit rare…