Dating from 1909, St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church was completed in 1929. There seems to have been some work on the dome in the years since I first photographed the building through an alley across Gravois. The church, like many in St. Louis, draws people from around the region.
Tag: McKinley Heights
The Bend in Gravois Avenue
Many of my longtime readers probably know by now that major arteries such as Gravois or North Florissant were widened due to a bond issue passed by voters back in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. Amazingly, Gravois Avenue was a two-lane street before this. But what you might not realize is that between…
Four Family Flat, South Jefferson
I see amazing buildings such as this one along South Jefferson Avenue, and I think what possibility they hold, but it’s rough with the heavy traffic going by. There are windows out there that can block out the noise (my friends who used to own the Declaration Independence Neudorf House proved this to me), but…
4,000th Post
3,999 posts ago, I started this website, back in May of 2007 (the twelfth anniversary is coming up in a couple of months), and while technically a few posts have been deleted for various reasons due to redundancy, or whatnot, I thought it might be interesting to check in on what has happened to the…
Jefferson Avenue South of Russell Boulevard
There is so much potential along Jefferson, with so many buildings preserved to create a walkable environment. Too bad the cars are flying by at 50 mph. Rich people originally sought out major streets for their houses, such as this beautiful Romanesque Revival mansion with intact service wing out back.
Shenandoah Avenue In Between Ohio and Jefferson, Part 2
I like these duplexes, where two houses are built along a party wall. Wrapping around onto Jefferson north of Shenandoah, the beautiful street wall, so well preserved along this stretch, continues.
Coming Soon
Update: The in-fill is now complete (fifth photograph down). The mansion or institutional building mentioned below was the Charless School (fourth photograph down). I’ve long been intrigued by the dense collection of houses built just after the Civil War to the northeast of the intersection of Gravois and Jefferson. What fire insurance maps and Compton and…
Southern McKinley Heights, Revisited
This strange little house above, tucked back the busy corner of Gravois and Jefferson; it appears on the Compton and Dry view. A surprisingly large number of those little houses survived the main wave of urbanization at the turn of the century. I’ve become increasingly interested in the early years of settlement in postbellum St….
Jules Street, McKinley Heights
Back in June I covered a secluded but unique corner of McKinley Heights, tucked back behind the commercial strips that intersect at Jefferson and Gravois. It turns out that uncharacteristically old quarter continues on up the isolated, one block Jules Street. More beauties await, again many decades older than the majority of the neighborhood that…
Southern McKinley Heights
Update: I revisited the area in June of 2020. Update: I revisited the area yet again in November of 2020 in two posts here and here. Tucked away, back on narrow little streets and alleys that have their own names, south of grand Russell Boulevard, an old, intimate part of the inner city of St….