I’d been having some conversations lately about the former Jewish Orthodox Old Home, and I was poking around and realized you can see an old entrance pavilion facing East Grand Boulevard just to the east of the large Modernist wing on the corner with Blair Avenue. It has severely deteriorated, so much so that I’m…
Tag: Hyde Park
Penrose Street Between Blair Avenue and North 11th Street, Hyde Park
I ended up on Penrose Street in Hyde Park recently east of Blair Avenue, which is blocked off with Schoemehl Pots. On the east, Interstate 70 cuts the street off from North Broadway, with which it had long been connected. Some houses are abandoned, like the one above, but others are in great condition and…
Small Houses
I saw a bunch of small houses recently that I thought were interesting. The first one has a sad ending, as when I photographed it the first time in my look at Virginia Avenue in Dutchtown (eleventh photograph down) it was still in good condition. I don’t know what happened. Sometimes I forget that a…
End of Summer Odds and Ends
I first would like to invite readers out to my free lecture on the history of the Lemp Brewery tomorrow, at 11:00 AM, September 20, 2022 at the Missouri History Museum. Its architecture was born out of the designs of highly influential architects Edmund Jungenfeld; Theodore Krausch; Widman, Walsh and Boisselier; and Guy Tyler Norton. I will be…
Around Blair Avenue, Hyde Park
If you wondered what that giant forty foot deep hole looked like before it was almost completely filled in, this is what it looked like a couple of weeks ago. MSD was working to get the sewer line fixed. Interestingly, it broke in the same place one hundred years ago. I suspect, looking at old…
Blair Avenue Between Newhouse and Angelica Streets, West Side
Speaking of anomalies, and I always tell people to watch out for this, if you ever seen a cluster of newer houses in a neighborhood of much older housing stock in a part of the city that was platted out early, you need to be curious. In this instance, we are looking at the west…
Randall Place Between Penrose and Ferry Streets, Hyde Park
An isolated section of street in Hyde Park has an interesting collection of Greek Revival houses, all of which are sadly abandoned. We start at Penrose Street in the south. They’re simple houses, without a large amount of ornament, and date back to being some of the oldest houses still standing in St. Louis. But…
Fires on North Park Place
There have been several concerning fires recently on North Park Place in the Hyde Park neighborhood, leaving what are some of the most important houses on what is one of the more stable blocks in the area devastated. When I last photographed them, the houses were well-secured and in good condition. From the looks of…
Interior, Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
We finally were given the opportunity to see the inside of Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, one of the oldest and most historic parishes in St. Louis. Its appearance has changed over the years, first due to the tornado that altered its exterior form from the original design above, and then later in the…
North Nineteenth Street Between Branch Avenue and Angelrodt Street, West Side
I was driving somewhere else when I spotted this row of houses on North Nineteenth Street, on the far south side of Hyde Park. I don’t think I’ve photographed them before. The house below looks like it might be seeing some rehabbing. I hope so. There are some very old houses in the neighborhood, such…