Following up on my “North up Blair” post, I took a different route to see how other buildings were faring in the late summer in the neighborhoods hugging Interstate 70. First up was Old North, where I confirmed from old photographs that a house on the south side of Palm just west of Blair had…
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Hadley and Montgomery Streets, Old North
Update: I revisited these streets in the winter of 2022. It had been awhile, if ever, that I had photographed Hadley Street just south of St. Louis Avenue, and I took some photos of some nice buildings that had been rehabbed and some in-fill. Unfortunately, some of the houses nearby are still abandoned, though they…
North Up Blair Avenue, Again
Update: I went back up this way again in late summer of 2019. Last fall, I did a post entitled “North Up Blair Avenue,” which looked at a cross section of the neighborhoods that were affected by the construction of Interstate 70, but that also show signs of rebounding. Beginning above, a house long admired…
Missed Connections, Old North
Old North St. Louis is famous for the success up around the 14th Street Mall and rightfully so, but I do want to draw attention to the mess down near the new interstate bridge and the cut-off streets it has caused, leaving the southern portion of the neighborhood isolated from the rest of the city….
4,000th Post
3,999 posts ago, I started this website, back in May of 2007 (the twelfth anniversary is coming up in a couple of months), and while technically a few posts have been deleted for various reasons due to redundancy, or whatnot, I thought it might be interesting to check in on what has happened to the…
McKee’s Legacy, Winter 2019
Update: The house was demolished by July of 2019. The beautiful house at the corner of Blair and Palm is still owned by Northside, and it continues to fall apart (you can see it in the second photo here, and in this post). I assume it will eventually be torn down, as there is no…
More Collapses
Update: The house above has been demolished, as expected. Sadly, there have been some more building collapses in the last month, one due to no one’s fault, and two due to ongoing neglect and lack of investment. Above, the front porch of one of the ill-fated row of houses built on top of a quarry…
North Fourteenth Street
I took this picture back when it was much warmer, along 14th Street just north of La Mancha Coffeehouse and Crown Candy Kitchen. I love these old rowhouses, which were rehabbed several years ago, and still look great.
North Up Blair Avenue, Fall 2018
Update: I retraced my path in early and late summer of 2019. Many of the buildings seen below have now been demolished and are now vacant lots. The house featured in the pictures above and below was demolished in 2019. Blair Avenue gives you a great cross section of the neighborhoods just to the west…