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…
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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…
Bethany Cemetery, St. Charles Rock Road
We looked at the now fire-gutted former sanctuary of Bethany Evangelisch Church last week, so I thought I would check out the accompanying cemetery out St. Charles Rock Road. Like just about all German Protestant churches, the cemeteries were owned and operated independently by individual congregations, for better or for worse, sometimes for the extremely…
Glasgow Village Today
Having looked at the history and read about Glasgow Village in the paper, and realizing I hadn’t actually visited in a long time and only cursorily, I set out early on Saturday to take a look. I went up Riverview Drive and entered the area via Spring Garden Drive and drove around the southern portion…
Friedens Cemetery, September 2024
I’d been concerned in previous years about the upkeep of the Friedens Cemetery, just across the boundary of the City on Bellefontaine Road. It was once the cemetery of Friedens Evangelisch Church in Hyde Park, but as is so common, when that congregation closed, the burial grounds’ fortunes went in a different direction. However, on…
Castle Point, July 2024
Castle Point is one of those places in suburbia that sort of defies description. I visited the former Thomas Elementary School all the way back in April of 2012 and learned from readers that there is a portion of the vast neighborhood that is known as Hathaway Manor, which is distinct from the larger Castle…
New Wellington Apartments
I always find the random apartment towers of North County interesting. Why did they feel it necessary to go with such high density? I tried to find the backstory on this building but with no luck. Anyone remember?
Former Carrollton Bowling Alley
Sitting at the entrance to the now eradicated Carrollton subdivision, the former bowling alley of the same name is still open under a new name, Kingpin Lanes. It now has sand volleyball courts under a giant inflatable dome to the left of the front door. The bowling alley has been around for a half century…