As the Mallinckrodt family’s fortunes grew, so did their houses. Emil’s farm house wasn’t too shabby, and seems to have survived into the Twentieth Century. A Greek Revival center hall house, it acquired a Queen Anne style front porch in the late Nineteenth Century. It was demolished at some point, I estimate, in the early…
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West Cabanne Place, West End, Revisited
I hadn’t been back to look at West Cabanne Place, platted in 1888, in a while, so I thought I would go take a look and check up on it. I first explored the street back in August of 2009, and revisited the Theodore Link House in September of 2014 and August of 2019. In…
End of Autumn 2025 Odds and Ends
Here are some leftover photos from the last six months. Above is a Falstaff sign in Benton Park. Above, looking down a street in what I think is Kingsway East towards the Chase Park Plaza, but I can’t be sure. Above is the Missouri Athletic Club, which I snapped while sitting at the light at…
North of Snake Alley, Burlington, Iowa
At the top of Snake Alley, and south of where a U.S. Highway cuts through and crosses the Mississippi River is a highly intact and beautiful neighborhood. I think Iowa has some of the most stunning examples of the Queen Anne Style, and there are many meticulously restored houses throughout the state. This particular house…
After the Tornado: DeBaliviere Place
Following the path of the tornado east/northeast, we reach the DeBaliviere Place neighborhood, bounded by Forest Park on the south, DeBaliviere Avenue on the west, Delmar Boulevard on the north and Union Boulevard on the east (where we’ve already seen damage). Damage from the tornado is similar to that in Skinker-DeBalivere, with a large numbers…
Municipal Services Building
Opened in 1927-8 to designed by the firm Study & Farrar, the Municipal Services Building is diagonally across Clark Street and Tucker Boulevard from City Hall. It is perhaps a building that is missed by many people, but is still used in part by the City of St. Louis. It is actually a collection of…
After the Tornado: Union Boulevard
Heading north on Union Boulevard, we see the damage to Waterman Place; normally the house above and below are largely shielded from view but with the trees destroyed, they are exposed. Many of the windows on the Chesterfield, below, have been blown out; I have been told that throughout the area affected by the tornado,…
Former Constant Mathey House
I discovered the Adlon Apartments were once the site of the Constant Mathey House, demolished sometime before 1927 when the new building was constructed. Mathey was a salesman with the famous Mermod Jaccard Jewelry Company. But interestingly, the old carriage house is still standing in the back of the apartment building’s parking lot. This is…
Lee Hotel
Designed by Alonzo H. Gentry, the Robert E. Lee Hotel at 18th and Pine streets lies only a few blocks north of Union Station and represented a new type of lodging in St. Louis. Opening in 1928, the Robert E. Lee was a simple, “no frills” style of hotel, and catered to businessmen who probably…
Lemp Brewery from the Air, 1930s
I really love this amazing aerial photograph of the Lemp Brewery, a decade after International Shoe had taken over. You can see how the shoe company had already added several floors onto a couple of buildings and altered the smokestack of the third boiler house or power plant to say ISCO. The railyard is still…