Update: I revisited this stretch of Lindell Boulevard in August of 2022 and in October of 2023 (last photo). I love the mighty row of apartment buildings on Lindell in between Taylor and Euclid. They’re mostly from the early Twentieth Century, but there’s a couple of more recent ones as well. Update: The northeast corner…
Tag: Lindell Boulevard
Lindell Boulevard, Heading West
I never really get a chance to look at the houses on Lindell west of Kingshighway. They’re an interesting mix of housing styles, not particularly always my favorite, but still a noteworthy achievement of organic development on the largest lots in the city. Recent additions have been more successful than others.
Saint Louis University
The SLU campus has a wide variety of buildings, including this old Jesuit church, which is now the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. Nearby was an interesting, almost Modernist grade school. I really like the severe features of this depiction of Christ, on the front facade. There’s something weird about the windows on the large…
St. Francis Xavier Church, Night
I was stuck at the light again at Lindell and Grand, this time at night, so I snapped another furtive shot.
Yes, You Can Force CVS to Do What You Want
Update: The AAA Club building was preserved in the final design and built CVS Pharmacy built on the site. I have been following the proposed demolition of the AAA Club on Lindell for a while now, but Vanishing St. Louis says it best here. While honestly, it’s not the most urban building in the world,…
The Bel-Air Hotel on Lindell Blvd
To be honest, I had always considered the Best-Western on Lindell in the Central West End to be a total dump. Little did I understand that the building had merely suffered under decades of poor maintenance and decor that masked the underlying beauty of the hotel.
An Awesome House on Lindell
I came across this house on Lindell; it is truly exceptional, because it doesn’t look like a house in St. Louis. It looks like it belongs in Boston or New York, but I am glad it is here regardless.
Lindell Blvd, Central West End
Update: I went back and looked at this stretch of Lindell in April of 2014. I can only imagine that at one time, all of Lindell was lined with huge mansions. But I’m not complaining that many of them are gone; in many instances they were replaced with beautiful turn of the century apartment buildings…
San Luis Apartments
Update: Looking back now as of January of 2021, I quite frankly don’t know why I was so worked up about the demolition of the San Luis. It really was not an attractive building-it was actually quite mediocre and dated-so I don’t blame the Archdiocese for tearing it down in the summer of 2009. In…