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…
Tag: North County
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…
Up Around Bellefontaine Road
I had some business up in North County so I snapped some hurried shots of some interesting places along Bellefontaine Road, which was the former name of North Broadway in the City as it wended its way to the fort of the same name near the confluence. Well, this first place is technically on Dunn…
Kinloch Park, Berkeley
I recently stumbled upon the plat map of Kinloch Park, which as its name suggests, has to do with the street grid of Kinloch, the historically middle class African American suburb in North County. But it is not so simple. Kinloch Park formed only the northwest portion of Kinloch, and that part has actually been…
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Plant, Under Threat of Demolition
Update: The buildings have been demolished. I read recently that there was an old Curtiss-Wright airplane plant on the north side of Lambert International Airport facing imminent destruction for new development, and that it was on the National Register, and thought to myself, well, it doesn’t sound too terribly interesting, but I might as well…