Crossing South Spring Avenue, we reach the final block in our survey of Botanical Avenue in the Shaw neighborhood. The first house on the corner is an impressive example of what I might call almost Tudor Revival or Jacobethan in style. Interestingly, it also appears to have been originally built as a two-family flat. The…
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Magnolia Avenue, National Garden Clubs
Hiding in plain sight on six acres on the south side of the Missouri Botanical Gardens is the National Garden Clubs headquarters. You can read all about the history of this organization here. The open courtyard welcomes the visitor into the front entrance of the building. Historic photographs give us a window into the fascinating…
South County Center
Developed by the May Department Stores and originally anchored by a Famous Barr department store in Mehlville, the South County Shopping Center opened in the fall of 1963, spurring increased residential development around the intersection of what would become Interstates 55, 270 and 55, just west of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge. This was the fourth…
South Down North Grand Boulevard, Sunset
I was coming back from St. Charles and I needed to get to Grand Center, so Grand Boulevard was the logical route to take. I snapped some photos on the way down the grand thoroughfare. Above, the old Second German Presbyterian Church, which I photographed back in February of 2019, is still standing. One of…
Iowa Avenue Between Cherokee and Utah Streets
Due to a large parking lot that demolished a large number of houses, the block of Iowa Avenue north of Cherokee Street is relatively short. There is this interesting office building, which pops up in the middle of the block. Then there is a row of houses with the last tinges of Romanesque Revival style…
The Long Lost Landreth Building
The Landreth Building, sitting at the southeast corner of 4th and Locust streets, was a historic skyscraper that had missed my attention before and I only discovered it by accident recently. At eighteen stories, it may be the tallest building demolished in downtown St. Louis, beating out the lost Third National Bank Building, which was…
Shanley Building, Recalled to Life
I’ll have to admit I didn’t think I’d see the day, but the Shanley Building has been rehabilitated and saved from demolition. A very large residential building has taken up much of the rest of the block, but it has been built around the former orthodontist’s office, originally designed by St. Louis architect Harris Armstrong….
Wainwright Building for Sale
I’m sure by now many people have heard that the State of Missouri is vacating the Wainwright Building in downtown. Let’s not waste time on trashing the State of Missouri or Chesterfield, which will be the recipient of those government workers. I want to stress that from my understanding, forty years ago the State of…
View from the City Museum Roof
I was invited to a special event at the City Museum and when I made it up to the roof, I realized that the sunset was casting downtown and the rest of the city in a wonderful light. I waited until dusk and then took many of the same views again. Above and below is…
Downtown Granite City, Spring 2024
I was visiting Granite City to see another amazing GCADD exhibit, so I thought I would photograph the downtown again, it having been five years since the last time. Everything looked the same, but there were some differences. For starters, the Moose Lodge has been demolished. The steel mill is still there for the time…