St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church in Normandy along Natural Bridge Road dates to 1953 and is not the first building on the site. The parish dates back to 1854, when Ann Lucas Hunt donated land for the church. The current church was designed by Joseph Murphy, who along with Eugene Mackey, also designed Resurrection in…
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End of Autumn 2025 Odds and Ends
Here are some leftover photos from the last six months. Above is a Falstaff sign in Benton Park. Above, looking down a street in what I think is Kingsway East towards the Chase Park Plaza, but I can’t be sure. Above is the Missouri Athletic Club, which I snapped while sitting at the light at…
Greendale
Heading up Normandy Avenue, I first glanced over at the historic Normandie Golf Club and noticed earth being moved around. Had it finally been purchased and subdivided for houses, as had been threatened so many times? No, in fact it is being renovated according to designs by Jack Nicklaus. But I was turning my attention…
Bel-Nor
As can be seen clearly labeled on the map above, the town of Bel-Nor began as a real estate development named the Country Club Addition of Normandy Park. In fact, the Normandie Golf Club, which sits to the south of the residential component of the town, lies within its city limits. The old Incarnate Word…
Normandy, Part Three
On the west side of Florissant Road, opposite St. Vincent Children’s Services, which is again another land donation of the Lucas-Hunt family, we have a row of houses from the 1920s and 30s. There is a broad mix of houses on what is the eastern edge of the Normandy Heights addition, with almost Arts and…
Normandy, Part Two
Crossing over Florissant Road, we are now on Bermuda Drive, which appears on the Normandy Park plat maps. We see the back of the house above which we saw back in May of 2019. Much like along Florissant Road that we saw back in May of 2019, there is a row of Gingerbread houses of…
Normandy, Part One
Normandy is one of the most interesting parts of St. Louis County, and I have created a tag for future and past posts of the area, including the municipal boundaries of the modern city but also areas part of the historic area owned by the Lucas Family. Charles Lucas, and more importantly his son John…
Gingerbread, Florissant Road, Normandy
For whatever reason, there are just four Gingerbread Style houses on the east side of Florissant Road in Normandy. I do not know why they are here; above are the northernmost, and below are the three southernmost.
Shingle Style House, Normandy
Right along what is just plain old Florissant Road, not north or south, east of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, is this wonderful specimen of the Shingle Style, which is not widely common around this region anymore. I do not know why it is here, or who owns it. There is a garden on…
St. Vincent’s, Revisited
Update: Damaged by fire on June 11, 2020. I thought it was time to swing back by the old St. Vincent’s Hospital just north of St. Charles Rock Road, when the light was getting long and the eastern façade was beginning to be shrouded in shadows. The building was designed in the Kirkbride manner, which…