While walking along Warne Avenue, I took a closer look at the ornate bowling alley building on the northwest side of the street just to the southwest of West Florissant Avenue. I had photographed its facade back in September of 2017 (last photo), and it is still vacant. It is interesting to see how commercial…
Tag: O’Fallon Park
Deeper into the O’Fallon Neighborhood #3
The beautiful houses continue on the streets right next to O’Fallon Park, with a mixture of interesting architectural styles from the late Nineteenth to early Twentieth centuries. The street grid of the old O’Fallon estate intersects with the College Hill neighborhood and creates a triangle of strange shaped blocks. This beautiful store building has apartments…
Deeper into the O’Fallon Neighborhood #2
I’ve featured these houses before, which are masterpieces of architecture in St. Louis, quietly holding their own along the park in the O’Fallon neighborhood. It surely is not easy, as the twins are huge, and expensive, and getting a home repair loan up this way is not easy, as many people have told me personally….
Deeper into the O’Fallon Neighborhood #1
Update: The first pictures are from Alice Avenue, which I revisited in December of 2019. There is so much beautiful architecture in the O’Fallon neighborhood, the area to the southwest of the park that was once the estate of John O’Fallon. While many of the pictures in this post are grim, the vast majority of…
East Side of West Florissant Avenue
West Florissant Avenue is perhaps more famous for being a massive commercial and traffic artery out in North County, particularly through Ferguson and Dellwood and further beyond, but it is a bit of a curious street south of Interstate 70. It is lined with funeral homes, and then some very nice stately homes in the…
In Between Fairgrounds and O’Fallon Parks
Not all of North St. Louis is desolate, abandoned or destroyed. In fact, much of it is healthy, just like this block off of W. Florissant. The architecture rivals–and is in fact better–than the architecture of the contemporary Tower Grove area.
West Florissant Avenue, College Hill
West Florissant Avenue south of O’Fallon Park goes down to two lanes, much as most major streets in St. Louis once were. For whatever reason, the major boulevard plan did not extend up to this stretch, instead turning off onto Natural Bridge (via Palm, technically). Update: The buildings above were demolished for a plaza by…
Elegant Twins, O’Fallon Park
Update: See these houses again and the surrounding streets from in February of 2019. In December of 2019, it looked like the house on the right (last picture) was had been abandoned. I looked at the house on the left again in January of 2022 (last photo). The neighborhoods to the south and west of…
O’Fallon Park Random Buildings
I really like O’Fallon Park; located on steep, rugged bluffs that cascade down to the interstate, it’s perhaps one of the less famous recreational sites in the city. It has a beautiful pavilion (will photograph that in the future) that looks a lot like the one in Carondelet Park, but it also has these buildings,…
Touring the Northside
It’s always interesting to take someone up to the North Side inside Grand for the first time; last week, I took my friend Jeff, in from China, up around some of my favorite neighborhoods. The desolation, and houses decimated by brick theft, were shocking to Jeff. I’d always been intrigued by this small, wood frame…