The St. Louis giant of Mallinckrodt Chemical began as a farm on the North Side, near the present day intersection of North Broadway and Salisbury Street. Emil Mallinckrodt, a native of Dortmund, and his wife Emily Vallmau owned a farm along the road that was then known as Bellefontaine Road, with their three sons Gustav,…
Tag: North Broadway
The Ruins, North Broadway, Far North Riverfront
I was heading up North Broadway when I spotted something out of the corner of my eye that made me make a U-turn and investigate. Through the lush undergrowth that had sprung up from the heavy rains we’ve seen this spring, I spotted the ruins of an old building peeking out. Through some research, I…
Gatehouses, Bellefontaine Cemetery, Revisited
I was driving up North Broadway past Bellefontaine Cemetery when I noticed that the gatehouse was undergoing some renovation. With so many absentee landlords and other slumlords letting their properties fall into disrepair, its nice to see the Cemetery taking pride in their buildings. I’ve looked at these gates back in November of 2016. As…
McKinley Bridge Sign
I love this sign on North Broadway, pointing the way up to Salisbury Street and the approaches to the McKinley Bridge (whose viaduct you can see in the background. It is very, very old, which is perhaps obvious due to the little circular reflectors on the letters, as well as the letters that have apparently…
Rising Stove
I love ghost signs, and this one on North Broadway is one that I hadn’t seen or photographed before. I like the name.
The Never Built Central Tower
St. Louis had a couple of skyscrapers planned in downtown St. Louis, but thanks to Andrew Raimist, to whom full credit is given for this post, I learned that there was a forty story tower planned on Broadway, that would have slid right in between the two large buildings above where the small building on…
Tony’s on North Broadway
As we commemorate the closing of Tony’s yesterday, one of the most famous fine dining establishments in the history of St. Louis, I thought it would be fun to look back at their original location at 826 N. Broadway, in the heart of what was known as Commission Row. Today, the vendors who once crowded…
Kingman and John Deere Buildings, North Broadway
In 1907, the F.H. Smith Lumber Co.’s trustees sold the property at the northeast corner of North Broadway and Warren Street to the Kingman Plow Company of Peoria for $18,000. Recently relocated from East St. Louis, the new Kingman St. Louis Implement Company, was part of a wave of new factories that had relocated to…
Demolition, Federal Cold Storage Warehouse
I went by on Saturday to check on the demolition of the Federal Cold Storage Warehouse on North Broadway in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood. The fire at this point was now extinguished as far as I could tell and only North Broadway was closed, and will be for a several more weeks while demolition…
A Second and Final Fire, Federal Cold Storage Company
Demolition began less than a week after the last fire was extinguished. Back in May of this year, I commented on the little-noticed fire at the former Federal Cold Storage Warehouse on North Broadway. I had remarked that a fire in such warm weather was suspicious. While the weather was cold the last couple of…