North Broadway never fails to continue to fascinate me. Who would think a bunch of old warehouses and factories would have so much history? They do, obviously. Take the old American Brake Company’s buildings, which sit at Tyler Street. The first building built by the revolutionary company, which designed brakes for freight trains, not for…
Tag: Near North Riverfront
North St. Louis, Late Summer, 2019
I met new people all over North St. Louis this summer, including members of the congregation of the Original Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in the Ville neighborhood, on St. Louis Avenue. Better Family Life had organized dozens of churches to host barbecues all summer long, and the Church had been one of the participants. I…
North Broadway, Near and Far North Riverfront, Summer 2019
North Broadway never ceases to fascinate me. As usual, I refer to it as a street, and also an area. For example, the above and following two photos are on or around Holly Avenue. The image of east of Broadway, if you have one, is usually one of warehouses, factories, or sadly, abandonment. It is…
Central Waste Material Co.
Not much has changed with this building since I first photographed it in 2011.
Cold Storage Warehouses, Near North Riverfront, October 2018
Update: The building above and in the last photo was destroyed by fire in late October of 2022 ; I photographed it one last time a couple of weeks before its destruction. The building below was gutted by fire in January of 2017. It’s been a couple of years since I came down here to…
Coming Soon: Nothing! The Historic Apartments On Branch
Update: Replaced with a vacant lot, which will probably be here for a very, very long time. The only positive thing I can say about the demolition of the beautiful apartment buildings on Branch Street, cut off from viability in the 1950s by the interstate, is that I thought the small corner building on the end…
The Intersection of Madison and North Second Streets, Revisited
The intersection of 2nd and Madison Streets remains intact, for the time being, with a wealth of beautiful buildings, many of which have been built since the 1909 Sanborn Map below. The Engine Company No. 28 was already there, and has been restored nicely, looking much the same as when I photographed it over a…
The End for the Historic Apartments, Near North Riverfront
Update: The site is now a vacant lot. Many of us had always held out hope for this beautiful series of buildings on Branch Avenue, just on the other side of the interstate from Old North and Hyde Park. But it was not to be, and they are now being demolished, and pretty soon there’ll…
Lewis Street, Blocked
So I get why they needed to block off Lewis Place to install the new smokestacks, but were there any hearings, debates or announcements that the street, owned by the people of St. Louis, not TriGen, would be blocked off? I doubt it in this city. Corporations are king.
New Stacks at Ashley Street Power Plant
I wonder what that crane is doing, I asked one weekend. A week or two later, I received my answer. The massive smoke stacks of the Ashley Street Power Plant are being replaced, and these rusty remnants are the old ones. Presumably since the plant, which now produces steam, is not being demolished for the…