Delmar is a traffic sewer, whose current design only encourages speeding and further separation of the city into north and south. Pedestrians have always made great cities great.
Tag: Lewis Place
Enright Avenue in Between Newstead and Taylor Avenues
This is an intriguing block of the Lewis Place neighborhood. It’s in relatively good shape, and by all means should command prices equal to that in the Central West End (a major leagues pitcher’s throw away from here), but yet, there’s that street, Delmar, in between. Those funky rounded porches look to be original.
Apartment Building, Lewis Place
Large, multi-family buildings are rare other than four-families, but then there’s this larger building at Walton and Enright Avenues.
West Belle Place, East of Taylor Avenue
St. Louisans, until apparently the latter half of the 20th Century, always peacefully coexisted as renter and owner on the same block. Check out these apartments up above–there were certainly many high class places around the city. West Belle Place has some great houses, though sadly many are boarded up.
44XX West Belle Place
Across the street is this magnificent house, rotting away by itself. Sometimes these houses defy easy classification architecturally–they’re so inventive and eclectic. Look how this shingled pediment truncates in the back, where the service wing bends out.
4469 West Belle Place
If one death of a great house is a tragedy, and the death of a thousand grand homes is a statistic, let’s just focus on this one house–one of thousands that now sits empty or have already been demolished. Looks at the details, look at the craftsmanship. Will it be saved in time? It’s within…
Newberry Terrace West of Taylor Avenue
It’s sort of interesting; they built tract housing back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, but they just did a really good job of hiding it! But what I always see in these rows of houses is rhythm, the idea that each house is a note in a musical score that moves the song…
Newberry Terrace, East of Walton Towards Marcus Avenue
Newberry Terrace is a beautiful street, but its future is uncertain. Look at those houses, and imagine what it was like, and if we had the right attitude about reinvestment, what it could be again.
Suburban Track, Revisited
The old Hodiamont Streetcar line is still owned by Metro.