Heading west from the square and downtown, we come across St. Paul Lutheran Church, founded in 1921 and originally met in an older building. The current church is from 1952. Houses are relatively simple in town. But I did find this nice Queen Anne Style house back closer to the courthouse. Out southwest of town,…
Tag: Queen Anne Style
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…
Cote Brilliante Avenue and Environs, Revisited, The Greater Ville
Again thwarted by a one-way on Cote Brilliante (I looked at the Cupples School on it in the past) in the Kingshway East neighborhood, I took Kingshighway south to Aldine Avenue, which I’ve looked extensively over the years and how it was eventually demolished due to rampant land speculation by the Roberts Brothers and others….
Farmington, Iowa
The last town heading downstream on the Des Moines River is Farmington, named after the one in Connecticut. Founded in 1839, around the same town as the other settlements in this area, there are some interesting buildings in town. The most notable is the L. Burg Block, constructed in rough stone in 1878 in the…
East of North Street, Peoria, Part Two
Continuing around on Columbia Terrace in Peoria, there are these houses from the early Twentieth Century. There is also this impressive Tudor Revival house around on Randolph Avenue. But then there are some amazing Queen Anne houses, with elaborate paint schemes, such as the one below. There is this unique house below in green stone.
East of North Street, Peoria, Part One
I’d looked at some of the streets northeast of Main Street in Peoria before, but this time I went up North Avenue. North Avenue heads to the north just about opposite of High Street, which I’ve looked at twice before, once in September of 2013 and 2019. These houses date from the early Twentieth Century,…
West Callender Avenue and Environs, Peoria
I was up on the bluffs on Moss Avenue in Peoria, which I’ve looked at before back in July of 2021, here and here. Then I realized, wait a minute, this house below looks familiar, so I turned off Moss Avenue and went north on Cooper Street. I went up to Callender Street, and discovered…
Marshall Place and the Former Webster College
Platted early in the history of Webster Groves and served by the nearby train station, houses on Marshall Place date from 1860 to 1910, a span of fifty years. It was platted by John Marshall in 1860, and the first couple of houses are more Colonial Revival. But clearly one of the oldest houses is…
Monday Club and Other Historic Houses, Webster Groves
I thought it was time to get back to Webster Groves, considering that the last post I made on the city was in May of 2013(!) and there are a grand total of nine for the historic suburb. We’ll start by looking at the Monday Club at 37 S. Maple Avenue, which was built around…