Looping back around on Flora Avenue after turning around at Big Bend Boulevard, there are more houses that are typical of Maplewood. This house got a third floor added on. This house got a whole new wing added on to the east. I found this Dutch Colonial interesting in that it has a very prominent,…
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Elm Avenue, Maplewood
Walking down Elm Avenue, we are in the Maplelawn Addition of Maplewood, where the houses are noticeably smaller, and further away from the former train station. They are also built in tracts of similar designs. There are also many four-square houses, which are common in Maplewood. Below is looking down Walter Avenue, which is part…
Maple Avenue, Maplewood
We then turn onto Maple Avenue, still part of the original Maplewood Subdivision, and see more suburban style Nineteenth Century houses. But then as we approach Sutton Boulevard, higher density housing appears. This is the amazing, Colonial Revival(?) Colonial House apartment building. That’s some nice Mid-Century Modern type font. A more traditional early Twentieth Century…
Vine Avenue, Maplewood
Heading down Marshall Avenue south of Manchester Road past some churches we’ve looked at before, we reach Vine Avenue, a part of the Maplewood Subdivision. It’s only a few blocks away from the old Maplewood train station on the Union Pacific Railroad, and surely would have provided an easy commute to downtown St. Louis. There…
Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship, Maplewood
Originally built as Maplewood Christian Church, which broke ground for its new sanctuary on April 21, 1957 to replace an earlier building destroyed by fire, today houses Crossroads Presbyterian Church. It is located on Oakview Terrace just north of Manchester Road in Maplewood. The church and wings originally cost $188,430. Kenneth W. Wischmeyer was the…
Lohmeyer Avenue and Oakview Terrace, Maplewood
Heading up Sutton Boulevard around the giant grocery store parking lot, we turn right onto Lohmeyer Avenue, part of the Lohmeyer Heights Addition. I am curious about this house, as it looks like it is older than the rest of the homes in the addition. Was it the Lohmeyer house? I’m curious if anyone knows….
Sutton Avenue, Maplewood
Starting at Maple Avenue, we head north up Sutton Avenue, starting at the old streetcar turnaround which is now a park. There’s this cool building right at the corner. I think many people might know that the Suttons’ farm was right at the intersection of Manchester Road and Sutton, and you can see their property…
Woodside, Maplewood
I realized last weekend that I never created a Maplewood tag, so as we look at the streetcar suburb in the coming days, that oversight has been corrected. Starting out, we’ll look at Woodside, built in 1849 by the Rannell Family, making it the oldest house in the city. The farm was subdivided into various…
Stertzing Building, Southwest Avenue, Maplewood
I spotted this other fascinating storefront along Manchester Avenue; its use of glazed brick seems to modern, but I suspect that it is original to the building.? Giant shade trees block the view of the building, but I’m glad they’re there. The bronze or perhaps cast iron elements had a unique touch to this building;…
Concordia Lutheran Church, Maplewood
I always find Modernism in St. Louis to be endlessly inventive; sometimes they’re pure, and other times they take on a fascinatingly eclectic feel, such as Concordia Lutheran Church in Maplewood. Built in 1953, it features many of the hallmarks of Modernism, while simultaneously incorporating elements of many different historical styles, such as these volutes…