I’ll be upfront with you all and say I’m going to be reporting a lot of bad news in the coming weeks. First up is the former Sunday school hall for the now destroyed former Friedens German Evangelical Church, which had fallen victim to a fire in January of 2025. The hall, I believe from…
Tag: Schools
Carr School, Before Demolition
Well, I heard in the news that the old Carr Elementary School, which has been abandoned since in 1983, is being demolished. By then, the neighborhood it served had largely been annihilated by urban renewal. I detailed the historically rich story of the Carr Square article in two parts, here and here, for St. Louis…
Demolitions Coming, Former Marillac College
UMSL is planning on demolishing some of its buildings on the south side of campus, many of which I have documented before. On the chopping block is the building above, the former Franciscan monastery which I looked at back in June of 2011; it has spectacular stained glass windows which I assume will go in…
Buder Elementary School
I missed two schools that might also be closed in the St. Louis Public Schools’ plans for reduction of its footprint. They are Mann and Buder. I looked at Mann way back in 2009, when ironically it was threatened with demolition. Despite being fully enrolled with strong test scores, the District has still proposed its…
Clyde C. Miller Career Academy
Opening in 2004, the Clyde C. Miller Career Academy was designed by KAI and Kwame Building Group. It is the newest building proposed for closure, but the building will not be abandoned, but used for a different purpose, just the end of high school classes. Sitting at 1000 N. Grand, it is just north of…
Carver Elementary School
Washington Carver Elementary School is a bit of a mystery to me. The name of the school is obvious, of course, and commemorates the famous scientist and inventor, but the details of the building are not well documented. City records state that it was built in 1926, but there are clearly later additions in the…
Bryan Hill Elementary School
Opened in 1911, Bryan Hill Elementary School serves the College Park neighborhood. Designed by William Ittner, it is squeezed into a narrow parcel of land, making photographs of the building difficult. Named after Dr. John Gano Bryan, a famous educator in the late Nineteenth Century, that appellation still does not explain the “Hill” portion. Perhaps…
Meramec Elementary School
Meramec Elementary School is another example of an earlier building, built when Dutchtown was well out in the exurbs of St. Louis, was replaced by a later commission. In this case it was William Ittner in 1911, having adopted his famous mature style of a central portal and two matching wings with some asymmetry. And…
Adams Elementary School
Adams Elementary has a history that stretches back to 1878, when the school above was constructed in what at the time was a relatively isolated but not unpopulated part of the city. The current building was designed by William Ittner in 1899, which is fascinating because the school is not in any way a “traditional”…
Peabody Elementary School
Peabody Elementary School is another institution with a long history in the neighborhood just south of downtown that can be traced back to at least the 1870s if not earlier. At one point it became known as Clinton-Peabody, and as some readers might remember, it shared the name of the housing projects nearby. A new…