Moving east, there are more businesses that replaced houses. The photo above is perhaps the southeast corner, but I can’t be sure. The house in the background is gone for certain. The Fountain on Locust has become a famous restaurant in the amazing Spanish Revival building below. While this building below was marked for demolition,…
Tag: Midtown
Locust Street Between Former North Channing and Cardinal Avenues
Back in September, we looked at Washington Boulevard in Midtown, and its transformation in the early Twentieth Century from a tony residential neighborhood into a commercial district. One block to the south is Locust Street, which like Washington, stretches from downtown where it ends at Theresa Avenue (though Washington continues, of course). Locust, seen above…
New Masonic Temple, Redeveloped
I never thought I’d see it, but the New Masonic Temple on Lindell has been successfully redeveloped into apartments, known as the B on Lindell. Not surprisingly, due to its massive size, its interior had never been completed, so the recent renovation was probably working with blank space in much of the building. It’s still…
Washington Boulevard Between Garrison Avenue and Beaumont Street
Moving past this building above which has a bit of some panache, we reach the Grand Wig House, 2911, which is a bit of an institution in St. Louis. It was a cork insulation company at one point, as well as a sausage shop. Interestingly, before it was a commercial concern, a house on the…
Washington Boulevard Between North Compton and Garrison Avenues
Stretching out to the west of Jefferson Avenue was the massive Daniel D. Page Addition, which encompassed thousands of parcels, largely platted between 1858 and 1871. Page was the second mayor of St. Louis and he also was heavily involved in real estate. A substantial portion of what we now call Midtown was once owned…
New Target Opens
The new Target is open! I’m not complaining; there is a dearth of shopping east of Grand and it is much needed. But make sure you check your receipt for the added taxes you’re subsidizing to pay for this place… Plenty of bollards to prevent people from crashing through the front of the store–good thinking…
A Collapse, Midtown
“Hey, I wonder how that one house is doing,” I thought to myself recently while driving down North Compton Avenue. I soon found out: Not very well at all!
Crumbling Highrise Housing
We have a serious problem in this city with the growing obsolescence of buildings built in the mid-Twentieth Century urban renewal building boom. Built on blocks that once made up the former Mill Creek neighborhood, Heritage House is one such place. Perhaps you saw it in the news where all of the elderly tenants had…
The Mysterious Long Lost Phillip Gibson Stone House
Every so often I come across something completely strange and mysterious, and in this case it is a survivor, a stone house located in the back of a lot in Midtown near the right-of-way of Highway 40, and long since obliterated like the neighborhood that grew up around it, leaving no trace of its existence…
Other Fall Updates, Fires, Demolitions, Etc.
It finally happened, the Mullanphy Emigrant Home, which I last looked at back in June of this year, caught on fire and burned to the ground on the night of September 14th. There is certainly no grand conspiracy, but simply the fact that overnight lows reached 50 degrees, and a squatter’s fire probably spread out…