I made an interesting discovery near the Rock Church just off North Grand Boulevard regarding this building. Due to the size of the smokestack, I assumed this was a factory, but since at 1909, this building was a school supply warehouse for Saint Louis Public Schools. The fourth floor was labeled “bindery,” so I wonder…
Tag: Midtown
Clyde C. Miller Career Academy
Opening in 2004, the Clyde C. Miller Career Academy was designed by KAI and Kwame Building Group. It is the newest building proposed for closure, but the building will not be abandoned, but used for a different purpose, just the end of high school classes. Sitting at 1000 N. Grand, it is just north of…
Carver Elementary School
Washington Carver Elementary School is a bit of a mystery to me. The name of the school is obvious, of course, and commemorates the famous scientist and inventor, but the details of the building are not well documented. City records state that it was built in 1926, but there are clearly later additions in the…
Washington Boulevard, Revisited June 2026
I’ve looked at Washington Boulevard before west of North Jefferson Avenue, but I took another look a few weeks ago. Nothing has happened at the Jamison Memorial Church since the fire. Above is Central Baptist Church, an African American congregation which is over 180 years old, and I’ve always like its current Modernist home. This…
Auditorium Details, Fox Theater
Finally, we’ll look at some of the details of the ornament in the main auditorium.
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…