Crossing Natural Bridge Avenue, we head into an area of the city that has not gotten much media attention, but was hit just as hard as other neighborhoods to the south. Ashland Elementary, above, was seriously damaged, and from what I understand will be closed past the start of the new school year. In fact,…
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After the Tornado: Around the Ville and Greater Ville
Fountain Park, which has been in the news a bunch already, was crowded with disaster relief efforts so I continued on, not wanting to get in the way. I headed up North Taylor Avenue, taking a quick look at the Lewis Place neighborhood before heading into The Ville. I’ve looked at the building above before,…
St. Paul, St. Charles County
The small town of St. Paul takes its name from the Catholic church at the crossroads of Hackman and St. Paul roads, just to the west of Route 79, which follows the bluff line up along the Mississippi River in northern St. Charles County. There is no street grid but rather houses and businesses lining…
Magnolia Avenue from Klemm Street to Tower Grove Avenue
We cross over Klemm Street and encounter some more grand homes, whose backyards are truncated by some houses built perpendicular to Magnolia Avenue on the cross street. Their styles reflect the eclecticism that is so common in the early Twentieth Century, with styles coming from all sorts of sources. This house has a wonderful porch…
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,…
Ladue Middle School
Originally built as a junior high school for grades seven through nine, the gymnasium and lunchroom for Ladue Middle School has always impressed me. Designed by Murphy and Mackey, a notable St. Louis architecture firm, it opened in 1958 at a cost of $1,523,618. Designed for 1,000 students, the building has been altered over the…
J. Milton Turner School, Meacham Park
Named after a freed slave, the J. Milton Turner School was built as part of the Kirkwood School district in Meacham Park, a predominantly African American area that was only later annexed into the City of Kirkwood (many of us know how that turned out). Of course, the school was segregated at the time of…
Former St. Engelbert’s Campus
One of the more popular former Catholic parishes that I’ve posted about before is the former St. Engelbert’s on Shreve Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. It might also win the informal award of “Largest Catholic church building most people have never heard of in St. Louis,” as well. It’s huge. I was poking around on…
Lake School, Revisited
Update: Creve Coeur has demolished the school; no word on whether the city will rename the park something different than Lake School Park. Well, this came out of left field. Creve Coeur wants to demolish the historic Lake School, which I looked at back on New Year’s Eve of 2021. I went by a couple…
Cote Brilliante Avenue from Goodfellow Boulevard to Union Boulevard
Continuing through Wells-Goodfellow, we pass by Stowe School, which closed in 2009 and is now for sale for $450,000. Built in 1967, I call this design, which appear throughout the northwest side, the last generation of schools before the dramatic decline in student population in the city. After the schoolyard there is this lone, abandoned…