Polishing off the full length of Pennsylvania Avenue in Carondelet, which I did in two earlier spurts earlier this winter here and here, we now start almost at the River des Peres, at Catalan Street. Some of these houses very well might have housed the workers at the nearby Klausmann Brewery, which we looked at…
Tag: Ruins
A Collapse and the Near North Riverfront
Well, for the second time in a couple of weeks a building just north of downtown was destroyed that I didn’t have any pictures of (the first was this one). I suppose I always took the building for granted, but I learned after high winds caused a partial collapse that it was in worse shape…
German Singing Society, Destroyed by Fire
On the same tragic night St. Louis lost Bob Kramer, the city also saw the destruction of the Old North Sängerbund, a German singing society located at the southwest corner of North 14th and Howard streets. Originally built as a church, and ending its life as a church known as the New Jerusalem Church of…
Northland Avenue, The Western Greater Ville
Moving a little to the southwest, I took a look at the houses on Northland Avenue between Euclid and Marcus avenues. I definitely see the irony of how just a couple of miles north on Euclid Avenue, after looking at its path in the Central West End a couple of weeks ago, can make such…
Penrose Street Between Blair Avenue and North 11th Street, Hyde Park
I ended up on Penrose Street in Hyde Park recently east of Blair Avenue, which is blocked off with Schoemehl Pots. On the east, Interstate 70 cuts the street off from North Broadway, with which it had long been connected. Some houses are abandoned, like the one above, but others are in great condition and…
Redevelopment Continuing, Lafayette Square
Back in May of this year, I checked in on the massive new development transforming the long moribund northwest side of the Lafayette Square neighborhood. I think most people know the story: the wealthy area declined and industry moved in (though that’s not entirely true, as early sources show that dirty industry had always been…
Beck and Corbitt Iron Company, In Ruins
As I watched footage of the last two sections of the old Beck and Corbitt Iron Company building burn to the ground on Thursday, I realized it was a good thing I managed to get down and photograph it one last time earlier this month. It’s the building on the right in the first photo…
Notre Dame of Paris, Under Reconstruction and the Cluny Museum
No trip to Paris would be complete without a visit to Notre Dame, which simply means “Our Lady” in French, and as such, there are perhaps thousands of churches in the Francophone world with that name. Our Lady obviously refers to the Virgin Mary. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the cathedral…
Foundations of the Louvre
Like St. Louis, Paris is multi-layered. One of the sights that I was not going to miss out on are the original foundations of the Louvre fortress, which are now viewable after being buried for centuries under the courtyard of the eastern portion of the famous palace. This helpful illustration that somehow photographed well above…
The Tuileries: A Lost Palace in Paris and Its Influence on St. Louis Architecture
You’ve probably never heard of the Tuileries Palace, but it’s actually one of the most important places in French history over the last five hundred years, and its influence on the architecture of what has become known as Second Empire in the United States and St. Louis is hard to overstate. First of all, it…