Finally, we’ll look at some of the details of the ornament in the main auditorium.
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The Auditorium, Fox Theater
Moving into what I call the auditorium, for lack of a better term for the theater’s main room for viewing movies, musicals or music, we see more of the elaborate architecture.
The Lobby, Fox Theater
I’ve looked at the exterior of the Fox Theater before, way back in June of 2010, but I’ve never looked at the interior. We’ll start with the lobby. Designed by Charles Howard Crane and opening on January 31, 1929, the photograph above was probably commissioned right before or after the premiere of the lavish movie…
The Second SLU Medical School
The founding of the second Saint Louis University Medical School is quite the convoluted story, and if I make any errors, please let me know in the comments! It is the story of two earlier schools, the Beaumont Medical School and the Marion Sims Medical School and their eventual uniting under the SLU aegis. There…
Third Baptist Church, Revisited
Third Baptist Church is an interesting situation, where the interior is much older than the exterior, which was renovated in 1950. The interior dates from 1885. But as can be seen in the apse, there is rich woodwork, stained dark contrasting with the stonework.
The Mallinckrodt Residences
As the Mallinckrodt family’s fortunes grew, so did their houses. Emil’s farm house wasn’t too shabby, and seems to have survived into the Twentieth Century. A Greek Revival center hall house, it acquired a Queen Anne style front porch in the late Nineteenth Century. It was demolished at some point, I estimate, in the early…
Pinkie Tony House, Destroyed by Fire
The house I first documented back in September 2014 was sadly destroyed by fire on October 22. Shockingly, when we went by to examine the ruins, there was nothing left but a pile of rubble. Investigations of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps revealed the house, which was extremely old, perhaps the 1860s but definitely at least…
Sheldon Memorial
The Sheldon Memorial was built in 1912 for the Ethical Society according to designs of the architect Louis Clemens Spiering. Spiering is actually a very interesting figure, having participated in the design of the 1904 World’s Fair, as well as being a descendant of the famous German Marxist Karl Ludwig Bernays. St. Louis, as pretty…
Ruins in the Undergrowth
“Hey, I wonder how that one house is doing,” I thought to myself two Saturdays ago. I had checked in on a house I first found back in June of 2022 in April of 2024 and had discovered it had collapsed badly. At first, when I drove up the building, I thought it was completely…
Locust Street Between Huntley and North Jefferson Avenues
Moving east of T.E. Huntley Avenue, the former Ewing Avenue, we see some demolished Italianate rowhouses with late Queen Anne front porches. But what is amazing is the sheer size of the mansions that once lined this section of Locust, such as the ones below. The Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the YWCA is a historic…