Looping back around on Flora Avenue after turning around at Big Bend Boulevard, there are more houses that are typical of Maplewood. This house got a third floor added on. This house got a whole new wing added on to the east. I found this Dutch Colonial interesting in that it has a very prominent,…
Tag: Queen Anne Style
Elm Avenue, Maplewood
Walking down Elm Avenue, we are in the Maplelawn Addition of Maplewood, where the houses are noticeably smaller, and further away from the former train station. They are also built in tracts of similar designs. There are also many four-square houses, which are common in Maplewood. Below is looking down Walter Avenue, which is part…
Maple Avenue, Maplewood
We then turn onto Maple Avenue, still part of the original Maplewood Subdivision, and see more suburban style Nineteenth Century houses. But then as we approach Sutton Boulevard, higher density housing appears. This is the amazing, Colonial Revival(?) Colonial House apartment building. That’s some nice Mid-Century Modern type font. A more traditional early Twentieth Century…
Vine Avenue, Maplewood
Heading down Marshall Avenue south of Manchester Road past some churches we’ve looked at before, we reach Vine Avenue, a part of the Maplewood Subdivision. It’s only a few blocks away from the old Maplewood train station on the Union Pacific Railroad, and surely would have provided an easy commute to downtown St. Louis. There…
Lohmeyer Avenue and Oakview Terrace, Maplewood
Heading up Sutton Boulevard around the giant grocery store parking lot, we turn right onto Lohmeyer Avenue, part of the Lohmeyer Heights Addition. I am curious about this house, as it looks like it is older than the rest of the homes in the addition. Was it the Lohmeyer house? I’m curious if anyone knows….
Muscatine, Iowa, Part One
Continuing our end of the month series of Iowa river towns upriver from St. Louis, we next arrive in Muscatine. We first pass by a power plant, taking advantage of rail lines along the flat floodplains to receive its bounty of coal. Muscatine was founded in 1833 by George Davenport and was originally known as…
Lafayette Street Over to McCarty Street, Jefferson City
After looking at East Capitol Street and the old prison, I headed down Lafayette Street. Since it’s close to the center of town, there are some very old houses, in sort of a local version of the Italianate style, as well as newer homes from the 1890s. Down along McCarty Street, which is a busy…
West Main Street and East Capitol Avenue, Jefferson Avenue, Jefferson City
I visited Jefferson City recently, and I realized I had never really looked at the state capital outside of the capitol building. I discovered there is some great architecture, such as the building above and below, and over the next several days we’ll look at the city by street in the order I explored various…
Seventh Street Between Lewis and Jefferson Streets, St. Charles
Heading back south on Seventh Street in St. Charles, we see a wide variety of housing styles, including what looks to have been a Cape Cod before receiving several additions. While there are Queen Anne style houses in brick, there are also earlier houses in what could best be described as Greek Revival or Federalist….
Sixth Street Between Jefferson and Decatur Streets, St. Charles
We looked at Fifth Street in the historic core of St. Charles back in May of 2019, and then there’s a quirk in the street naming system of the grid, as before we get to Sixth Street, there is Benton Street, which we looked at more recently in September of 2024. Proceeding logically, we’re now…