The Cotton Belt’s eastern, river side has been spruced up with this great mural. More in the future on this.
Tag: Near North Riverfront
Near North Riverfront, Site of Stadium?
Update: The Rams moved to Los Angeles, and the stadium was never built. In fact, there was never any actual chance of the Rams staying here. The building on the left was damaged by a fire in January of 2017. The other two buildings were destroyed by fire, the one in October of 2022, and…
Ashley Street Power Plant, From a New Angle
The north side of the Ashley Street Power Plant is the more utilitarian, hidden side of this massive edifice, but still sublime.
Abandoned Apartments, North Broadway Area
Update: Demolished in the winter of 2018. The site is now a vacant lot. Many of my friends and I have long looked at this august row of simple apartments. They sit on the wrong side of the interstate, dooming them to obsolescence. Surely some trucking company will probably come for them at some point,…
More Devastation East of the Interstate
Update: The building above has been demolished. I often tell people that large numbers of people once lived in the areas now east of I-70 and I-55, but that the interstates destroyed their connection to the rest of the city to the west. But what is so interesting is that many of these buildings continued…
St. Louis Stamping/Hammond Sheet Metal Company
The former stamping and sheet metal company on Cass has seen a fair amount of renovation recently, opening up what had been a previously vacant building. Read the National Register nomination here.
The New Mississippi River Bridge and Its Place in St. Louis History
The new bridge over the Mississippi, opening as the Stan Musial Veterans’s Bridge six months shy of the 140th anniversary of the Eads Bridge, is probably the most spectacular bridge since its first counterpart in 1874. St. Louis will again have a Veterans’ Bridge after the original one was renamed the Martin Luther King Memorial…
St. Louis Shot Tower Company
Luther M. Kennett’s Shot Tower. On Lewis Street bet. Bates and Smith. Daguerreotype by Thomas M. Easterly, ca. 1850. Easterly Collection 004a. Missouri Historical Society Photographs and Prints Collection. Photograph by Dennis Waters, 1993. NS 17004. Photograph and scan © 1993-2006, Missouri Historical Society. St. Louis, like many major cities in America, had its own…
New Big Mound Memorial
I went to check on the progress of the new bridge, and discovered the new La Grange de Terre memorial was completed. It’s in a much better location than the old memorial in that the new one sits on land that was actually part of the mound. In the background, the approaches for the bridge…