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Tag: Near North Side
A Birthday and a Death
A friend had taken me out to dinner for my birthday in the Central West End on July 10th, and we were driving back to South City. It was already dark, as we had eaten late because I was giving a lecture at the Art Museum. As is common for me, I do not take…
N. Florissant and 14th Street
Update: The house on the left completely collapsed by December of 2018. The house on the right suffered severe structural collapse, but was still partially standing by then. Both houses were completely demolished and their rubble cleared by the fall of 2019.
Random Sights, North St. Louis
Sometimes I drive around the North Side, and I lose track of where I’m at. The above photo is in Hyde Park. The photo above is in the Near North Side. The house below: I have no idea where it is.
Various Places Along Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Side Streets
Update: I revisited the street in October of 2024Â and in January of 2017. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive is actually a collection of a couple of old major thoroughfares, including Franklin Avenue and Easton Avenue. It’s sad to drive along this street in the blocks on either side of Grand Boulevard. While there are occupied…
Patrick Henry School
Built in 1906 according to the design of William B. Ittner, the Patrick Henry School demonstrates the density of the bustling if deteriorating neighborhoods just north of downtown. It is a massive structure, with Tudor Revival details, based off of British educational models, and stretches for two blocks along 10th Street. It was the source…
Shrine of St. Joseph
Built in 1846, with substantial remodeling completed in 1866 by the Jesuits to serve the German population of the Near North Side, the Shrine of St. Joseph is one of the oldest buildings still left in the city. The lavish Baroque Revival fa?ade, from 1881 (incorrectly described as Romanesque Revival at the shrine’s website) seems…
Near North Side Church
Update: I photographed this church again in the winter of 2021 (second photo). What a strange church; the back is clearly very old, but there’s a more recent Gothic Revival facade added on. But the towers were never completed.
They Don’t Build Them Like They Used To #6: The New Entry to Downtown, More of the Same
The new entry into downtown St. Louis, through the newly configured Tucker Boulevard from the Stan Musial Veterans’ Bridge, could be a great opportunity to spread urban development northward from downtown. St. Louis is hamstrung by having interstates, dead zones and housing projects ringing its downtown like a noose, and unlike other major cities where…
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…