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…
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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…
Missouri Crematory
The Missouri Crematory was completed in 1888 according to designs by Otto Wilhelmi, and supposedly is the first one west of the Mississippi River, but I could not verify that. To be honest, much of the information out there on the crematory is not great, contradicts itself, and is also demonstrably wrong. I was able…
The Long Lost Landreth Building
The Landreth Building, sitting at the southeast corner of 4th and Locust streets, was a historic skyscraper that had missed my attention before and I only discovered it by accident recently. At eighteen stories, it may be the tallest building demolished in downtown St. Louis, beating out the lost Third National Bank Building, which was…
Late Summer Odds and Ends
I have some leftover photos from the summer that I needed to clear out. Above, this house has collapsed on West Florissant Avenue just north of Grand Boulevard in the College Hill neighborhood, unfortunately. The house below is in Hyde Park, and I originally looked at it back in August of 2018. The infamous gas…
North Florissant Avenue North of Salisbury, Hyde Park, July 2024
On my way somewhere, I passed by these old Second Empire houses, which have long intrigued me for many years. See older posts October of 2017 and August of 2018. Amazingly, six years later, they are all still here, both abandoned and occupied. This one below is the really rare one: a wood frame Second…