Responding to a reader critique, I headed back up to Baden recently, and in particular looked at the downtown area along North Broadway. The house above with its attached lot had not changed much. Many of the buildings north of there were still boarded up. This church was still looking good. The building below was…
Tag: Renaissance Revival
West End of Chamberlain Place
I’ve looked at the Chamberlin Addition (Bartmer Avenue between Union and Clara) numerous times over the years, first when Toby Weiss of BeltSTL and I discovered it way back in April of 2012.and found the amazing Union Memorial United Methodist Church, which was then featured in this post by Toby. I also revisited the street…
University Hills
Laid out in 1923 by Cyrus Willmore, University Hills was another of the large early automobile age subdivisions platted just to the west of the lions in University City. University Heights is just adjacent to the east. As is typical of the time the Tudor Revival predominates, and likewise in University City subdivisions, the larger…
Stabilization Continuing, Malt Kilns, Lemp Brewery
We last looked at the controlled demolition of the unstable malt kilns at the Lemp Brewery back in December of 2023. As I’ve been arguing for a while now, the owner’s decision to stabilize the building in this way is the best course of action, and I fully support it. Remember, this was originally a…
Don’t Fence Me In, St. Louis Edition
I want to tell you about a man you’ve never heard of outside of a news story last week, who died anonymously for unknown reasons less than a block from the center of our city’s government. My coworkers and I never knew the name his mother named him, but his nickname around City Hall was…
Former Most Holy Name, Attacked
Update: See historic photos of the interior here. Well, this is not good. I was coming from somewhere and when I drove by the former Most Holy Name Roman Catholic Church, I was startled to discover a very bad development. Much like what doomed St. Augustine’s and what has also happened at St. Mark’s, someone…
Museum Hill, Part Three, St. Joseph
The Wyeth-Tootle Mansion Museum sits at what is probably the highest point in the neighborhood, and is a sight to behold. The mansion takes up an entire block, but arranged on the streets around it are a bevy of other interesting historic houses, many of which have been renovated, as well. There is even a…
Krug Park and Two Cemeteries, St. Joseph
One of the focal points of St. Joseph is Krug Park, which is a fairly rugged plot of land on the northern side of the city. There is a system of parkways that connects much of the city (and is difficult to photograph) and they sweep around St. Joseph connecting parks such as Krug. In…
Around Hall Street, Cathedral Hill, St. Joseph
There’s more amazing architecture to the west on the slopes of Cathedral Hill, which we examined at different times of the day and dates. There has been some recent in-fill on what had been a recently cleared area of several blocks. There was an abandoned school, and I had to wonder if it was an…
Hall Street, Cathedral Hill, St. Joseph
The 600 through 800 blocks of Hall Street in St. Joseph contain some of the most stunning houses in America, and running the gamut of different architectural styles and ornament. It is north of downtown and up a gently sloping rise Cathedral Hill named after the nearby Roman Catholic cathedral. Above, this was the home…