I had initially ignored Illinois Avenue in Marine Villa due to the presence of its little bungalows, clearly built in the mid Twentieth Century. But I finally took a look, realizing that there must be an interesting story, and simultaneously acquired an appreciation for the little guys. Starting at Osage Street on the south and…
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Fifteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina
I started this website fifteen years ago today, and we’ve come a long ways since then. Three reboots, two crashes, and hopefully now it looks better than ever due to the hard work of around twenty WordPress technicians back in January and February of this year. Thankfully, there are still plenty of new things to…
Montana and Osages Streets Between South Broadway and Missouri Avenue, North Side
I’ve continued to be fascinated with the streets of Marine Villa on the southern edge of that small neighborhood, as there are some very interesting early survivors, as well as some great examples of post-Civil War Nineteenth Century houses. Heading east on Montana Street from South Broadway, we see houses such as the ones, which…
Suspicious Fires Week: The Old Wood Frame House, Marine Villa
This house might not look like much, but it is a very old, historic house that dates back to at least the 1870s, and I suspect from its form, is much older than that. It appears in Compton and Dry’s Pictorial St. Louis, and as can be seen below, sits out in splendid isolation, and…
Old Lagering House, Lemp Brewery, Fall 2021
The old Fermenting or Lagering House is probably my favorite building at the Lemp Brewery, with its three original floors above ground, and the same depth below ground as it is tall. There are two ugly additional floors added by the International Shoe Company, as well as rectangular windows punched in the façade of the…
Ice Plant, Lemp Brewery, Fall 2021
While these twin buildings are prominent along South Broadway, their role in generating ice for the boxcars that took Lemp Beer around the world is less well known. I wrote about them at the end of this article back in January of 2019. Imagine, over one hundred years ago, railcars coming out of the massive…
New Power Plant, Lemp Brewery, Fall 2021
They don’t make power plants like this anymore. I wrote an extensive article about the Lemp Brewery’s power plant several years ago, so you can learn about it here. This is another work by Guy Tyler Norton, with extensive collaboration from General Electric. Remember the northeastern exposure would have been blocked by the Second Bottling…
Second Bottling Plant, Lemp Brewery, Fall 2021
I love this building. The Second Bottling Plant at the Lemp Brewery has many interesting facets to it, starting first with its architects. This is the only building on the property that I’ve definitively shown to be designed by the famed St. Louis firm of Widmann, Walsh and Boisselier. For a long time, many other…
Marine Avenue Between Cahokia and Miami Streets, West Side
Marine Avenue is most likely named thus because the old Marine Hospital was on the east side of the street. It is long gone, but the beautiful housing stock is largely preserved on the west side of the street. I’ve looked at this corner storefront before, once back in July of 2014 and then again…
North Side of Stansbury Street, Marine Villa
Stansbury Street is one of those weird little streets that only goes for one block, and takes its name from the addition of city lots to the city over one hundred years ago. There are some interesting houses, including the one above that I guess is undergoing a gut rehab. After World War II, some…