I have no idea where these houses are, but I think they’re in the Lindenwood Park area. I just thought they’re such a great crossing sampling of the beautiful houses built in St. Louis before World War II and thereabouts. In a lot of places in America during that time period, the housing stock isn’t…
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Around Wabash Avenue
I found Wabash Avenue recently, which is one of the last major north-south arteries in St. Louis down by the River des Peres. There are a series of streets that come off the avenue to the east and west. Interstate 44, above and obscured by the trees, cuts through the area. The area is quiet…
Lindenwood School
Designed by George W. Sanger, Lindenwood School has now been converted into apartments, a common reuse for many of the closed educational buildings in the St. Louis Public School System. Like many of the schools inspired by the firm of Ittner and Milligan, it’s an interesting mix of styles. The central portal is firmly rooted…
Fyler Avenue, Lindenwood Park
Fyler Avenue is sort of a main drag that cuts through several neighborhoods west of Kingshighway. The housing styles are all over the place, reflecting the fact that this area was very rural for much of St. Louis’s history. Note above: there is a very old house sitting far back in the lot above. Tract…
Marquette Avenue West of Jamieson Avenue
I’m fascinated by the short, quiet streets tucked in between the River des Peres/Interstate 44 and Jamieson Avenue. Many of the houses are from the late Nineteenth Century, and reflect what would have been distant suburbs from the city at the time. Below is one seriously messed with facade. But I find this area, so…
Former Immanuel Congregational Church
Looking at the former Immanuel Congregational Church from the southwest on Jamieson Avenue, you would think that you have your standard Colonial Revival church. But look closer at the color of the brick on the nave, and come around to the northwest side where you spot the belltower; this church was originally constructed in a…
Epiphany of Our Lord, Lindenwood Park
Update: Compare to St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Bevo and St. Ambrose on the Hill. I find it fascinating that there are a series of Italian Romanesque Revival churches in the southwest portion of the city. Epiphany is not different; it possesses that distinctive orangish-brown brick complemented with a large bell tower set…
Lindenwood Park, At Last
For whatever reason, I realized recently I have never made it to Lindenwood Park to take pictures. I remedied that on Saturday, and I was not disappointed. I was surprised that as far out as the neighborhood is from downtown, much of the housing stock looks to be from the first decade or so of…