North Twenty-First Street is another street lined with wonderful houses, and many buildings are still occupied as we head up the hill towards North Grand Boulevard. Now this house below is really interesting. It is surely one of the oldest houses in Hyde Park, and was built before street grading was finished, as the basement…
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North Twenty-First Street From Bremen Avenue to Penrose Street, Hyde Park
It turns out that I’ve apparently never looked at any of the buildings on North Twenty-First Street, but there are some nice houses along. There are some Second Empire apartment buildings, but also some never ones from the early Twentieth Century, like the ones above. These two houses below are just totally trashed. Sadly, there…
Angelrodt Street from North Twentieth Street to Blair Avenue, Revisited
Continuing around Hyde Park, I headed down Angelrodt Street east of Twentieth Street, which I looked at back in January of 2018. I first spotted this house, which is rapidly losing its vinyl siding. I’ve always been fascinated by these little houses, built a half century or more after Hyde Park was already a bustling…
Twentieth Street Between Newhouse and Bremen Avenues
Despite the sad loss of Friedens, I still think that Hyde Park is such a great neighborhood, full of so many beautiful buildings. Twentieth Street, one block over, is almost completely intact. I really love this storefront church, below. There is an old wood frame house behind, which must be very old, and then here’s…
Former Friedens German Evangelical Church, In Ruins
Well, I guess there’s not much to say but St. Louis has lost another beautiful church to fire, most likely set by squatters trying to keep warm on one of the coldest nights of the winter so far. In this case, it was the former Friedens German Evangelical Lutheran Church, which I first looked at…
Two Fires
Two notable fires happened in the last week or two, and we’ll start with one in the 2800 block of Cherokee Street. I have to admit I didn’t even realize the building was vacant; it has hosted a rotating cast of different carryout restaurants. It’s a sad turn of events on a major thoroughfare. It…
South Down North Grand Boulevard, Sunset
I was coming back from St. Charles and I needed to get to Grand Center, so Grand Boulevard was the logical route to take. I snapped some photos on the way down the grand thoroughfare. Above, the old Second German Presbyterian Church, which I photographed back in February of 2019, is still standing. One of…
Bissell Mansion, August 2024, Still Not Looking Good
Back in February of 2021, I had alerted readers to the abandonment of the Bissell Mansion, and already back then it was starting to look unkempt. Based off a reader tip, I went back and took another look, and things were getting much more out of control. The building looks reasonably secure, but I must…
Late Summer Odds and Ends
I have some leftover photos from the summer that I needed to clear out. Above, this house has collapsed on West Florissant Avenue just north of Grand Boulevard in the College Hill neighborhood, unfortunately. The house below is in Hyde Park, and I originally looked at it back in August of 2018. The infamous gas…
North Florissant Avenue North of Salisbury, Hyde Park, July 2024
On my way somewhere, I passed by these old Second Empire houses, which have long intrigued me for many years. See older posts October of 2017 and August of 2018. Amazingly, six years later, they are all still here, both abandoned and occupied. This one below is the really rare one: a wood frame Second…