Years ago, I asked some of my students who live in North St. Louis about that intriguing Modernist hotel on Kingshighway just north of Natural Bridge Avenue. In response, one of my students replied, “That’s not a hotel, that’s a motel; that place is so sleazy they charge by the minute, not by the hour.”
Tag: Mark Twain Industrial Park
Ashland School
Update: I went back and revisited the school in January of 2021. Built in 1909 according to plans by William Ittner, the Ashland School is still occupied, which is a pleasant surprise when so many are going empty.
Penrose and Fairgrounds, Tucked Up By the Interstate
Update: I revisited the area in the late summer of 2021 around North Newstead Avenue. Tucked up in the bend of I-70 that now leaves most of its streets truncated to the north, I found the most interesting, quiet part of the Northside. The area still has a fair amount of wood frame houses, indicating…
The Mysterious Industrial Zone
Update: I identified the following factory buildings below as the former Bridge, Beach & Co. Manufacturing, which I photographed in November of 2018 and June of 2022. Hudson Bridge, one of the founders, is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Hard up along the county line, we discovered a whole neighborhood of early Twentieth Century industrial buildings,…
Old Army Munitions Plant
Update: I went back in November of 2018. Not much has been happening to the old Army Munitions Plant since it was demolished several years ago.Apparently the site was polluted, but it sits amidst a large group of warehouses and other industrial use facilities.Other than illegal dumping, not much else is happening here.
Old Rexall Warehouse, North Kingshighway
Update: This is the old Rexall Warehouse. See more pictures of it from October 2018, including a historic photo from the Missouri History Museum archives.
Tandy Medical Arts Building
This small but interesting doctors’ office building sits just north of Natural Bridge on Kingshighway. Not only is it an interesting building, it has an interesting history. Read this entry from Discovering African American St. Louis. The details are what I enjoy about this building, from the brick-created symbol for medicine… …to the flower bed…
Natural Bridge Avenue
Update: Revised October 2018 with revised photographs, texts and links to relevant posts. On the heels of my pleasant trip down Page Blvd last weekend, I decided to check out Natural Bridge Ave, a possible route for the northern extension of Metrolink. Sadly, while there was more life along Natural Bridge, much of the historic…
Nonsense
Update: I have no idea what this post is about. Here’s a picture of an abandoned building. How do you get from converting Advantix to digital? I accidentally clicked GoogleMaps instead of regular Google, and it spat out these absurd directions. Apparently this is how you get from “converting Advantix” to “digital.”