I stumbled across this interesting church on my way somewhere else, and I stopped to take a closer look at it. Constructed in 1949 for Bethesda Lutheran Church, it has now become the home of Faith Lutheran Church since 2019 when the latter congregation relocated from its original location at 3060 Lucas and Hunt Road….
Tag: North County
Wagner Electric
I wrote an article about the tragic end of the manufacturing giant Wagner Electric in Wellston, just west of the St. Louis City limits back in May of 2019 in St. Louis Magazine, but I found some cool diagrams of the plant so I thought I would revisit the buildings on Plymouth Avenue. I always…
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…
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…