Heading east down Lynch Street, we skirt the southern edge of the slender Barsaloux Addition, platted in 1866 after having originally been surveyed in 1858. It’s another one of those French farm fields that came up from the river; you can see the addition surveyed on the left in the plat above. Lynch is an…
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Merchant Street, Ste. Genevieve
Let’s finish up our tour of Ste. Genevieve with a final walk up Merchant Street to our starting point of the area around the church. Perhaps what is best illustrated in this row of buildings is that time moved on, and while yes, the town is famous for its French roots, Ste. Genevieve slowly became…
Architectural Variety, Ste. Genevieve
Here’s a scattering of other buildings along Main Street in Ste. Genevieve, showing what a wide variety of architectural styles there are in the town. This first house, now a restaurant looks to have been more Greek Revival and was the changed to looks more Colonial Revival with the front porch and framing around the…
Commercial Buildings, Main Street, Ste. Genevieve
When I first put these photographs together, I thought this initial building was a storefront, but on closer inspection, despite its façade’s parapet wall, it does in fact appear to be a single family house. This building below is definitely a storefront, with a cast iron column holding up the corner of the front façade….
Other Houses Along Main Street, Ste. Genevieve
Readers interested in the Club Imperial, where Tina Turner performed early in her career, can see two posts I did on the famed venue here and here. I think it’s important to realize that while yes, Ste. Genevieve is an important French colonial settlement, the vast majority of housing stock is from much later than…
Further Down Market Street, Ste. Genevieve
The Southern Hotel is technically down Third Street, but we’ll continue on our way down Market Street towards the river. Note the cupola on the roof. While the Ste. Genevieve is famous for being a French colonial settlement, the majority of the current building stock dates from the Nineteenth Century. And much of it is…
Facing the Church, Ste Genevieve
Surrounding the block that holds St. Genevieve Roman Catholic Church, there is a solid wall of buildings. On the east is 3rd Street, with storefronts dating from the mid-Nineteenth Century. I suspect that many of these houses originally had regular windows and doors, and the large display windows were added later with the addition of…
Bowling Green, Pike County
Constructed in 1917, the Pike County courthouse sits in the middle of the square in downtown Bowling Green. There is a veterans’ memorial on the southwest corner of the building. It’s in a reserved Beaux-Arts style, typical of the time. Apparently Champ Clark, Speaker of the House served from this part of the state. You…
Old Monroe, Lincoln County
We’d seen Old Monroe on maps for years, on the banks of the Cuivre River, so we thought we’d stop by finally. There are some extremely interesting buildings, including the one below, which I suspect might have been built as a hotel originally. The house below is your classic, and probably German immigrant-built duplex; note…
Former St. John’s Hospital
I stumbled upon these photographs of the two former locations of St. John’s Hospital (now known as Mercy Hospital St. Louis, located at the northeast corner of I-270 and Highway 40), and I couldn’t help but want to share them. The image above shows the building at the southwest corner of Lucas and Jefferson avenues….