I spotted this interesting church on the way to the mansion I featured yesterday. While today it’s Calvary Chapel, originally it was the First Baptist Church of Maryland Heights, with a pastor named Milton McBride. Instead of a single dove, there were three stylized crucifixes in the clerestory window above the front portico.
Tag: Modernism
Marycliffe, The Marianist Retreat, Wildwood
Just south of Glencoe on Missouri Highway 109 is Marycliffe, which is a Marianist retreat set along the bluffs of the Meramec River. I stumbled on the retreat center recently, and its 1967 building, which we’ll look at first. I couldn’t find any signs of anyone on the property. This was originally the land of…
Chapel, Maryville University
When the old Maryville College and its chapel was left behind, the new Maryville University in West County soon built replacements for those accoutrements of the past. Built in 1981, the Huttig Chapel reflect the architecture of the time. I like it. The Crown of Thorns forms the handles for the front doors. Inside, a…
Russell Boulevard Between Compton Hill Place and South Compton Avenue
I thought I’d look at some of the houses along the north side of Russell Boulevard just to the east of the reservoir in Compton Heights. The house above, by the way, used to have two or more floors. We’ve looked at the Magic Chef Mansion before, and the wall that was built along with…
Demolition, The Workhouse
Regardless of your opinion of the Workhouse, or more properly called the Medium Security Institution, it is being demolished, and I thought I would swing by and take a look at the site. I had never actually stopped before, and really, driving along Hall Street, I’m generally looking out for maniac drivers around me so…
Eighteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina: Bombed Out Jack in the Box
Update: A devastating tornado ended up striking the afternoon this post was published. The Jack in the Box is now a Mexican restaurant named Antonio’s. I really didn’t have much planned for the eighteenth anniversary of this website/blog/whatever you want to call it, but then I thought of the bombed out Jack in the Box…
Sears Demolished, Chesterfield Mall
The former Sears has been demolished at the Chesterfield Mall site, which culminates the clearing of the buildings for redevelopment. The former Macy’s and eventually reopened Dillard’s buildings will remain.
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Eight
While there are mostly multi-family apartment buildings in this area of Dutchtown, there are still many single family houses sprinkled in, as well. There is even this rare two story house, seen below. And there are plenty of Gingerbread houses in the neighborhood, too.
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Seven
As I’ve long said, duplexes in St. Louis are often concealed or hidden, made to look like they’re single family houses! And that’s no different in these houses from the World War II period in Dutchtown, where there is either a single gabled or hipped roof with the only way to tell it’s two units…
Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Six
We’ll now head into the 1930s and 40s, when the World War II era came to St. Louis (yes, I know that the United States entered World War II in 1941), and Modernism via Streamline Moderne became common in the city’s architecture. While we normally associate these styles of four-family flats with St. Louis Hills,…