Update: Of the three houses on McRee Avenue just east of Vandeventer Avenue, the two houses on the right have been rehabbed; the house on the left has been demolished. Long troubled, long misunderstood, I will look at McRee Town, now relabeled Botanical Heights, all this week.
Tag: McRee Town
Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company Factory, McReeTown, Revisited
Update: Redevelopment has come to one of the buildings not pictured here. I went back to the American Tobacco Company, or more commonly known as the Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company to shoot the intersection of Folsom and Thurman for DartSTL. This factory was huge, but that is not perhaps what is most striking about…
More McRee Town
Much of the rest of McRee Town sits abandoned, with the potential for more redevelopment. I particularly like the house with the tan front and the red brick side walls; it would make a great rehab one day. The two mirrored apartment buildings give the effect of one larger building. I always like alley dwellings…
The Rebirth of McRee Town
I’m interrupting my tour of Kansas City architecture because I was so excited to see the recent developments in McRee Town, which for a long was one of the most troubled neighborhoodsin the city. Combining sensitive in-fill with the conversion of four-family flats into two houses and the renovation of other notable single family houses,…
McRee Town Doorway
I never get tired of this perfectly painted corner doorway on Tower Grove Avenue just south of Vandeventer.
Central Industrial Drive, Revisited
Update: See more pictures when I went back in 2014. I checked out the other end of Central Industrial Drive and spied some great shots of the Liggett-Meyers Tobacco factory in McRee Town.
Central Industrial Drive, McRee Town
Update: See pictures of when I went back to photograph the street. The most awkwardly named street in St. Louis, Central Industrial Drive worms its way through the lowlands south of Chouteau and Vandeventer Avenues.
Factory, McReeTown
I spied this old factory years ago, but I finally got up close a weekend ago. The smokestack is very distinctive-not just your old run-of-the-mill pile of brick. According to the Sanborn Maps, this was the American Tobacco Company. I don’t like Wikipedia, as it can be sabotaged so easily, but I did find some…
Stylish Vandeventer and Tower Grove Avenue Corner Doorways
Update: I revisited this doorway in April of 2012. Yes, the first door is on Tower Grove Avenue. Vandeventer Avenue is a strange street, cutting diagonally across the city at a weird angle. Just when you think the street is going downtown, it veers off to the north, almost touching Grand Boulevard but never quite making…