Let’s start looking at the neighborhood that rose up on the land the Russells subdivided, cashing out their land after it could no longer be exploited for its natural resources. Beck Avenue is typical of many streets on the south side of Tower Grove South, which is made up of small tract homes for the…
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Main Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Main Street faces the water, demonstrating that New Haven was a town founded on the river. There are still some old wood frame houses in between the street and the river. I assume they are some of the oldest buildings in town, but I do not know. There was a ferry at one point across…
A Collapse and the Near North Riverfront
Well, for the second time in a couple of weeks a building just north of downtown was destroyed that I didn’t have any pictures of (the first was this one). I suppose I always took the building for granted, but I learned after high winds caused a partial collapse that it was in worse shape…
Pennsylvania Avenue Between Robert and Loughborough Avenues, Carondelet
Back in 2021, I looked at some of the other streets in Carondelet, and I also took a look at the heavy industry that made the suburb south of St. Louis into an economic powerhouse, a true independent town with its own government and society. I was delighted to discover Pennsylvania Avenue, formerly 2nd Street,…
Howard Bend, February 2023
I’ve been driving out and around the Howard Bend area since the early 1990s, and it’s interesting t see how it’s been changing. In fact, one of my earliest posts, almost fifteen years ago, looked at the area when it was still rural. Finally, after years of false starts, Maryland Heights’s dreams of developing the…
Mill Creek Valley, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lick Run, which we looked at yesterday, empties into Mill Creek, the industrial spine of Cincinnati. Not surprisingly, it has been heavily modified, altered and polluted by humans over the last two hundred years. There is something sublime about the giant swath of hundreds of miles of railroad tracks that you can see fleetingly while…
East Fifth Street, Oregon District, Dayton, Ohio
We’re going to be in Ohio now for awhile, and it’s recently become one of my favorite states to visit due to its economic links as well as it being a stopping off point for several famous St. Louis brewers, including Adolphus Busch and Adam Lemp. We’re starting with Dayton, a city that doesn’t get…
North Third Street, Laclede’s Landing
What’s there to say about what’s left of North Third Street in Laclede’s Landing? First of all, to exit the parking lot, which is currently the only way to get out of the neighborhood and onto Third Street on the south side, you have to walk out into traffic lanes because there is a fence…
North Second Street, West Side, Laclede’s Landing
Starting way up by the casino, there is this large rock sitting here. I have no idea what it is doing. Below, I thought it was a smart idea to put a dog park under the western approaches of the MLK Bridge since in general modern engineers do not like buildings constructed under spans anymore….
North Second Street, East Side, Laclede’s Landing
We’ll first look at the east side of North Second Street, heading north. The two buildings on the right are the Greeley and Cutlery buildings, respectively. Back in 1980, the two buildings were shabby, looked abandoned, and the Cutlery Building was still sporting a fire escape like something you would see in the Lower East…