Update: More work had been completed by the spring of 2019. I saw this building under renovation a couple of months ago while checking out the Lewis Place neighborhood. Unfortunately, nothing has happened in several months. It’s a shame since it sits on a major street, right up on the sidewalk, but apparently its redevelopment…
Tag: Lewis Place
Lewis Place Gate, Revisited Again
Based off of classical architecture, the Lewis Place gates show the influence of Roman triumphal arches such as the Arch of Titus. I first looked at the gate in January of 2009 and then again in September of 2012.
McMillan Avenue in Between Walton and Marcus Avenues
What a bunch of wonderful four-family flats! They all have the same floorplans, probably, but each one is individualized on the front facade. Sadly, most are vacant.
Delmar Boulevard and Environs in Lewis Place
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.
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…