Heading east down Lynch Street, we skirt the southern edge of the slender Barsaloux Addition, platted in 1866 after having originally been surveyed in 1858. It’s another one of those French farm fields that came up from the river; you can see the addition surveyed on the left in the plat above. Lynch is an…
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Indiana Avenue Between Lynch and Pestalozzi, West Side
Turning around at Pestalozzi and heading north, we see that originally the west side of Indiana Avenue was fully built up like the east side, if not as densely. It’s also interesting to see that already in 1876, towards the north end of the block, a substantial portion of a hill had to be cut…
Completion at South Compton and Arsenal?
I guess they’re done repairing the corner of the building that was hit back in July of 2021? It survived the initial impact, as I showed in August of the same year, and then languished for a long time before reconstruction began in earnest earlier this year. I like how they imitated the crappy mortar…
Ste. Genevieve Arts Center
The Ste. Genevieve Artists Guild has an arts center in what was originally a museum building built in the 1930s. The building below was the office. Thanks to the reader for helping identify the original use.
Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part Two
North of Pestalozzi, there is an interesting mix of houses past the corner store that appears to have been converted into an apartment. It is a quiet street because it dead ends at Magnolia Avenue. I’ve looked at many of the oldest houses on the next block, back in September of 2015, including the one…
Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part One
Moving past the intersection of Gravois, Arsenal and Pennsylvania, which I’ve looked at in June of 2011, May of 2014 and 2019, we pass by the Grant School, which I looked at back in October of 2020, we pass through a very old section of Tower Grove East that I first looked at way back…
Iowa Avenue Opposite St. Francis de Sales
The west side of Iowa Avenue in between Lynch Street (which continues as sort of an afterthought west of Gravois) and Sidney Street opposite of St. Francis de Sales has some interesting houses. The first house above has an explanation of why it sits at an angle. It was most likely built before the addition…
New Lease on Life
I was alerted by a valued and longtime reader to the recent commencement of major tuckpointing and masonry rebuilding of the beautiful Second Empire storefront at the diagonal intersection of Lynch, Ohio and Gravois in the Fox Park neighborhood, just to the south of St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Oratory. On-line City records show…
Movement at the Corner of South Compton Avenue and Arsenal Street
The building was finally rebuilt in the spring of 2023. Reconstruction of the storefront at the northwest corner of South Compton and Arsenal finally got going a couple of months ago, and while they had to simplify the ornamentation due to damage to terracotta panels, I am still happy that’s happening. Now I hope they…
South Kingshighway and Gibson Avenue, The Grove
Heading north up what is actually the old orientation of Kingshighway before it was swept to the northwest to create the cloverleaf with Highway 40, we see that the normal streetwall of this part of the Grove is two or three story buildings, not six or seven. The old Lambskin Temple. a Masonic building, has…