Dominating the intersection of Ripa Avenue and Telegraph Road, St. Martin of Tours represents a moment in St. Louis architecture where tradition was beginning to evolve into innovation. While the church’s massing and design is certainly modernist, the stonework almost seems to be harkening back to an earlier age. The bell tower is perhaps the…
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Hancock Middle School Gymnasium, Revisited
I was out near Hancock Middle School, so I took some more pictures of the place. While the rest of the building seems to have been torn down and replaced by two new additions, the original, iconic domed gymnasium seems to have garnered enough pride that it was spared. Something I did not realize last…
Historic Taverns
Mark, a reader of my website, sent me some photos of corner bars in South St. Louis and Lemay; long-time neighborhood institutions, these taverns are rapidly disappearing. But luckily, many of them still carry on, beneficiaries of a loyal clientele and stable neighborhoods. It seems like the southern end of our city and the near…
Sancta Maria in Ripa, School Sisters of Notre Dame and High School
Update: I went back and revisited the convent of Notre Dame in late 2020. One time while visiting Jefferson Barracks, I headed north and discovered this wonderful convent and its neighboring school. The site occupies a dramatic site above the Mississippi River, and dominates the small neighborhood around it. Sancta Maria in Ripa Mother House…
Hancock Junior High Gymnasium
Update: I went back for more photos in March of 2012. While out wandering around two weekends ago in the Lemay area of South County, I stumbled upon this wonderful concrete geodesic dome at the Hancock Junior High School.