I recently was up on top of the roof of a warehouse in the Fox Park neighborhood just to the west of the intersection of Gravois and South Jefferson avenues, and I snapped these quick photos. Above is to the northeast. Below is to the northwest. Below is to the west. Below is to the…
Tag: Warehouses
Suspicious Fires Week: Warehouse on the Far South Side of Old North
Visible in the fourth photo down in this post from June of 2019, this warehouse caught on fire and burned, leaving only a ruined hulk behind. It will surely be demolished, and another vacant lot will join the dozens of others in this immediate area. I don’t imagine anything will replace it anytime soon. The…
Suspicious Fires Week: The Old Bowling Ball Factory, Jennings
“Fire at an old bowling ball factory on Xograph Avenue in Jennings?” I knew when I heard about this strange occurrence, and how the St. Louis Fire Department had to join their colleagues in the County to help extinguish the flames on Thursday (which later reignited on Friday), I had to go check out this…
Suspicious Fires Week: The Plastic Recycling Warehouse and the Old Tavern in Baden
The last couple of weeks, and in particular the most recent, have been rough on historic buildings in St. Louis, with fires striking numerous prominent and lesser known structures. The first one I’m looking at is a recycling center in the Baden area. I am well aware that dirty industry built St. Louis into the…
Northeast Side of Crunden-Martin, October 2021
I photographed the east side of Crunden-Martin back in the summer of 2020, and not much had changed. The hulking buildings are still vacant, and are built of a sort of pale red brick. A portion of the terracotta cornice, which may have been white or cream-colored when it was originally installed but has turned…
South Side of Crunden-Martin October 2021
It’s been almost exactly a decade since a fire ripped through one of the massive buildings of the Crunden-Martin complex in December of 2011. I came back in January of 2014, and little had changed since the conflagration except some of the scorch marks had been washed off the outside by the rain. By August…
Old Lagering House, Lemp Brewery, Fall 2021
The old Fermenting or Lagering House is probably my favorite building at the Lemp Brewery, with its three original floors above ground, and the same depth below ground as it is tall. There are two ugly additional floors added by the International Shoe Company, as well as rectangular windows punched in the façade of the…
DeMenil Place, Early October 2021
Things are changing on DeMenil Place! One of the medical marijuana cultivation licenses was awarded to a company that is renovating the old Cherokee Candy Company building, which sits on hallowed ground for me: the southeast quadrant of Block 52, which was bought from the City of St. Louis by Adam Lemp for $970. With…
Grain Elevator, Central West End, Revisited
I’ve looked at the landmark grain elevator in what is technically the Central West End but feels more like Midtown twice before over the years, here and here, but the light was so beautiful on an early Saturday morning I took another look at it.
North on Compton Avenue #6: Benton Park West from Cherokee to Utah Streets
There is a fascinating mix of housing between Cherokee and Utah streets on the our way north on Compton Avenue/ See the east side of the street in this post. I apparently did not remember to photograph the west side of the street back in 2017. The two one-story houses show how signs of having…