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…
Tag: North County
River Roads, Then and Now
It had been awhile since I’d checked in at the site of the former River Roads Mall, and the contrast between 1962 and 2025 cannot be greater. But perhaps it also reflects the changing pattern of suburban shopping; large, anchor-based shopping centers are being demolished and replaced with single parcel stores, each with their own…
Carrollton, Early October 2025
The last time I had visited the former Carrollton subdivision was back in November of 2022, and some things had changed. First of all, an ultimate frisbee course had been built. Also, we saw a person walking through the empty yards. Not sure what he was doing. The trees are slowly dying but the former…
Run-Down Motel, Bridgeton
As part of my continuing series of run-down motels around the region, we stop by this gem on the northwest side of Interstate 270 in Bridgeton. Anyone have any memories of this place? Clocking in at 2.8 stars at Google Maps, it was part of a trend in hotels in the 1970s where there was…
Evangelist Center, Former Grace and Eden-Immanuel Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran Church first appears in records in 1926 at 6404 Easton Avenue, modern day MLK Dr. in Wellston. I’m a little torn in wondering if there was an earlier congregation in this church, as the architecture seems to suggest an earlier construction date than the 1920s, but I can’t be sure. By 1960, the…
Calvary Chapel, Former First Baptist Church, Maryland Heights
I spotted this interesting church on the way to the mansion I featured yesterday. While today it’s Calvary Chapel, originally it was the First Baptist Church of Maryland Heights, with a pastor named Milton McBride. Instead of a single dove, there were three stylized crucifixes in the clerestory window above the front portico.
John L. Miers House, Maryland Heights
Built in 1905 for John L. Miers, the house at the northwest corner of Midland Avenue and Smiley Road is now threatened with demolition. Miers was president of the United Railways streetcar company, and rather appropriately, a line ran right out front of the house (though obviously he could have afforded his own transportation). It…
Pasadena Hills, Revisited
It’s been almost exactly sixteen years since I first visited Pasadena Hills, and judging from the extremely low quality of the photos I took of the beautiful North County suburb I took back then, it was well past due to revisit. Comprising 120 acres and developed starting in 1928, the initial investment of the Carter…
Ira Avenue, Northwoods
I turned off Pasadena Boulevard in Northwoods and found this pleasant and nice street named Ira Avenue It continues that theme of houses developing from the 1920s into the 1950s. I love how Northwoods bucks the stereotype that many people hold for North County; it’s a beautiful area with well kept homes with beautiful architecture.
Pasadena Boulevard, Northwoods
Pasadena Boulevard follows the old right-of-way of the streetcar line that comes up out of Pine Lawn to the east. Just to the north of the park above was Minoma, the Italianate country estate of Jefferson Kearny. It is no longer extant. We enter Northwoods, which was the giant Edgewood survey, which you can see…