Update: The house has been demolished and is now a vacant lot. 3113 Arsenal Street in the Tower Grove East neighborhood was gutted by fire on the night of November 12. It’s the usual story: the owner of an abandoned house who’s owned the building for decades deferred maintenance for so long that finally it…
Tag: Ruins
Cote Brilliante Avenue and Environs, JeffVanderLou
Continuing down Garfield Avenue past some ruins, I approached the JeffVanderLou neighborhood and finished my journey down the Cote Brilliante Avenue axis. I reached Vandeventer Avenue, and crossed over, meandering a bit and actually missing the block of Cote Brilliante where Star Packing Company is located. But finally, after crossing Prairie Avenue, I was back…
Cote Brilliante Avenue and Environs, Revisited, The Greater Ville
Again thwarted by a one-way on Cote Brilliante (I looked at the Cupples School on it in the past) in the Kingshway East neighborhood, I took Kingshighway south to Aldine Avenue, which I’ve looked extensively over the years and how it was eventually demolished due to rampant land speculation by the Roberts Brothers and others….
Demolition, Federal Cold Storage Warehouse
I went by on Saturday to check on the demolition of the Federal Cold Storage Warehouse on North Broadway in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood. The fire at this point was now extinguished as far as I could tell and only North Broadway was closed, and will be for a several more weeks while demolition…
Bonaparte, Iowa
The next town is Bonaparte, which is named after Napoleon, of course. Many people don’t realize that many Americans admired the supposedly Enlightenment-inspired French emperor due to his conflict with ancient monarchies in Europe. The beginning of the town centered around William Meek’s founding of mills (he named the town) in 1837. The building above…
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…
Fires
The third weekend of July was rough in North St. Louis. First off, we lost a beautiful corner store at West Florissant and De Soto avenues, which I swear I’ve photographed and I also could swear was occupied with a second-hand appliance store if I remember correctly. It was destroyed by fire Saturday morning in…
St. Augustine’s Spire Still Standing, For Now
Contrary to the reports of one local news program, the final demolition of the spire of St. Augustine did not occur last week. I went by on Saturday, and as I had learned from a source already, it was still standing. A Caterpillar was screwing around with a pile of bricks. It reminds me of…
Virginia Avenue Between Koeln and Robert Avenues, West Side
Looking into a tip a reader provided me, I went and looked at a burned out hulk of a house down in Carondelet. It’s never good when a house sits in this state for any amount of time. I then headed around the corner and went up Virginia Avenue, which is a mixed bag of…
Commercial Avenue and Environs, Revisited, Cairo
Well, there certainly has been a lot of changes along Commercial Avenue, the main street of Cairo, since the last time I was here. First of all, we’re down to two buildings on the east side of the street, when there were four the first time I visited. I suspect there will be none soon….