I had a bunch of maps saved up that I had some purpose for that I forgot, so I thought I would present them here for your enjoyment. The first two are related to Mill Creek and Chouteau’s Pond, and demonstrate how important the body of water was to early St. Louis. Remember, all images…
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Norbury Wayman Map of St. Louis Additions and Subdivisions
Norbury Wayman was a historian and artist who researched and chronicled much of St. Louis and its built environment. I’m presenting here his additions and subdivisions of the city maps, which are incredibly useful for anyone looking to see when different portions of St. Louis were platted. Above is an overall map, and below are…
Magnolia Avenue from South Grand Boulevard to South 39th Street
The next couple of weeks I’m going to be looking at that strange, awkward strip of land that extends from South Grand Boulevard to Tower Grove Avenue between Magnolia Avenue and the north alley behind Botanical Avenue in the Shaw neighborhood. Why is the space between Magnolia and Botanical not wide enough for another street,…
Marais Castor Addition
As often happens, I find an intriguing map at the Missouri History Museum’s website and it leads me down a rabbit hole. In this case, it was the plat map above, of the Marais Castor Addition or Subdivision from 1853. Marais Castor means “Beaver Marsh” in sort of a mix of Latin and French, and…
The St. Louis Commons and Common Fields
You might often hear the terms “St. Louis Commons” and “St. Louis Common Fields” thrown around a lot, but it’s important to know the difference between the two. Let’s talk about what they were, and how the terminology still survives to the present day in legal descriptions of properties, including the house from where you…
Sixteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina
On the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary of St. Louis Patina, I wanted to announce that I now own the trademark for the name “St. Louis Patina.” I wanted to thank my parents for helping me obtain this recognition of this identity that I’ve built up over the last decade and a half. You’ll notice…
End of Summer Odds and Ends
I first would like to invite readers out to my free lecture on the history of the Lemp Brewery tomorrow, at 11:00 AM, September 20, 2022 at the Missouri History Museum. Its architecture was born out of the designs of highly influential architects Edmund Jungenfeld; Theodore Krausch; Widman, Walsh and Boisselier; and Guy Tyler Norton. I will be…
New Google Map
I have been working on creating an interactive map on Google Maps. You can find it here. I have begun to map out each neighborhood in the city, and hopefully some day it will provide a link to pictures of the area in question. Feel free to explore my map of St. Louis’s neighborhoods (a…
Old North St. Louis Map
I love this map because you can still see the curved property lines of the two other circular parks that once graced Old North St. Louis. Now only one remains.
New This Year
Update: The “new” website never happened, but the blog here has undergone revisions over the years. This year I am launching my own website that will feature most of the material I’ve posted here, and dozens of extra shots that didn’t make the cut for St. Louis Patina’s photo essays. I was also excited to…