Update: I looked at the houses above more extensively in February of 2020. The point of this website is to promote the forgotten corners of this city, and I sometimes neglect the more well known places, such as Lafayette Square. But the Second Empire mansions lining Lafayette Square are still spectacular, coming around on 150…
Tag: Lafayette Square
Lafayette Park
I like how Lafayette Park is a “living” park, where people can go and engage with their neighbors and community. Too many parks in St. Louis are someone’s “turf” or not safe. How sad that we have given up on so many of them, when Lafayette Park shows us a better way. See pictures of…
Lafayette Square, Revisited
Update: See more pictures of the houses above in this post from March of 2020. Lafayette Square rightfully gets a lot of attention; largely intact, with only a little in-fill, it shows what was lost, as well. I don’t know if I would like living in a world frozen in time historically. Neighborhoods change; they…
Second Empire Renovation
I could have sworn I had a picture of this house before it was recently fixed up on the third floor. Damaged by the famous tornado, it was just simple brick. At first I didn’t like the idea of the house removing that later addition, since it could be seen as historic too, but the…
Lafayette Avenue at Truman Parkway
Update: The building on the far right may have been an auxiliary building of Christian Staehlin’s Phoenix Brewery, located across Lafayette Avenue. The building on the far left was featured in another post from May of 2013. See the block to the west in this post from March of 2020. All the other corners at…
Benton Place, Revisited
Update: I did in fact back in July 2007; see the final four pictures of my first post for the neighborhood. I also returned to examine the two houses above in extensus in early March of 2020. I went back and looked at the west side of Benton Place in greater detail in January of…
A Unique St. Louis Style: The Second Empire-Italianate Hybrid
While the Italiante and Second Empire styles can be found throughout America, in St. Louis in the late Nineteenth Century some interesting happened. Someone took the characteristics of both styles and combined them together, as you can see in the house above on South Compton Avenue. Combining the Mansard roof of the Second Empire (see…
Storefront, Lafayette Square
I spotted this unique paint store on Lafayette Avenue, just north of the demolished section for the 44/55 interchange. In a neighborhood so famous for Second Empire and Italianate architecture, it’s interesting to see this different style here. I particularly like the brick work on top.
Old Stone Building, Lafayette Square, Revisited
The old stone house in Lafayette Square is not doing well; little has changed since I photographed it back in late 2011. Update: Here are the Sanborn and Compton and Dry views of the historic building, and its state as of June 2018.