Heading north past Pestalozzi Street, we see this interesting Italianate row, which has six front doors, indicating that it was once a series of flats. But then the street wall goes back to three story Second Empire houses, which is typical for this area. Along with two story versions. This house below on the right…
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Lemp Avenue Between Arsenal and Pestalozzi Streets, West Side
I could have sworn I photographed this stretch of Lemp Avenue before, but apparently not. It’s a beautiful stretch of mostly Second Empire houses, with a few other styles thrown in. Crittenden Street, which is much narrower and actually ceases to exist in Tower Grove East, passes through here. It was always practically an alley….
Utah Street Between Missouri and Wisconsin Avenues, North Side
Wow, things sure have been changing along Utah Street in Benton Park! The corner storefront above, which had been baby blue for a long time, has been rehabbed. Amazingly, the ghost sign was preserved when the presumably latex paint was removed. Great job! And this little duplex, when I wasn’t paying attention, was rehabbed a…
It’s a Good Thing Bad Taste Isn’t a Crime
I’ll fully concede that this four-family had already been screwed up for years before the current rehabber bought it, but that does not excuse what’s happened to this long-suffering property in the last six months. Cheap crap that will fail when the next unsuspecting owner years from now owns it makes my blood boil. The…
Fairfield Avenue, Newport, Kentucky
We’ve looked at Newport, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati before, but this time we’re going to look at Fairfield Avenue, starting at Ward Avenue and heading east. As I’ve said before, one of the great tragedies of St. Louis and its relationship to the Metro East is that civic and business leaders have not…
Vine Street Over to Race Street, Over the Rhine, Cincinnati
“Lord, on this day of thanksgiving, we thank you for our loved ones, family and friends. We also thank you, oh Lord, that Chris has almost run out of photos from his trip back in August.” Heading down the hill from Clifton, passing through some other neighborhoods, I reached what I call “upper” Vine Street…
Clifton, Cincinnati
Up north, the Clifton neighborhood was an independent town dating to the 1850s, but street car lines, which made the arduous climb up the steep hills feasible, transformed the area in the 1890s. Much of the housing dates to the first years of the Twentieth Century, however, and filled in what had originally been the…
Maplewood Avenue, Mount Auburn, Cincinnati
Somehow accidentally wandering down the hill from the summit of Mount Auburn, I stumbled upon Maplewood Avenue, which contains one of the most amazing collections of Queen Anne Style I’ve ever seen. I would like to know the story behind the Swiss chalet, but after that begin the Queen Anne, some with a simple palette,…
Auburn Avenue, Mount Auburn, Cincinnati
Mount Auburn? That sounds interesting, I thought to myself, and then discovered that there was a historic site related to future president William Howard Taft. After taking a terrible photo of his boyhood home, I photographed many of the houses along Auburn Avenue, which follows the crest of the hill. The siting of Mount Auburn…
Wick Park, Youngstown
My first stop off the interstate in Youngstown was Wick Park, which is a historic district up on a plateau of sorts just north of the downtown area. The outstanding focal point of the neighborhood and sitting at the end of Park Avenue where it t-bones with 5th Avenue is the Stambaugh Auditorium. I think…