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…
Tag: Maps
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…
Historic St. Louis County Map
Update: This is a new link as of September of 2023, as the old link to an earlier edition no longer exists on the internet. This is a link to a fascinating map of St. Louis County in the 1890’s. What is amazing is how pretty much every road we know today was already there…