While I’ve looked at St. Louis Avenue numerous times over the last eighteen years, I’ve never actually published any photographs of the south side of the street in St. Louis Place (except for ones that have all been demolished and this one weird one). We’ll start at North 22nd Street and work west. First up,…
Tag: Second Empire
Meramec Street Between Ohio Avenues and South Grand Boulevard, South Side, Dutchtown
I’ve looked at the north side of Meramec Street in Dutchtown extensively, in two groups of posts that start here and here, but I’ve never looked at the south side except here and there with individual buildings. Let’s start at South Broadway and work our way west. Thanks to Found St. Louis, I learned the…
1400 Block of Newhouse Avenue, Hyde Park, Revisited
I walked down this stretch of Newhouse Avenue back in January of 2018 so after looking at the damage at the old Friedens Sunday School Hall, I thought I would take a look at how the block was doing. There had been continued abandonment and deterioration. The building below hasn’t seemed to have changed at…
South Ninth Street Between Emmet and Soulard Streets, Soulard
The next block between Emmett and today’s Soulard Street (Lafayette and Soulard would flip later in the Nineteenth Century) was already filled with houses. But interestingly, many of them have changed in form and style. The two churches are still standing; No. 2 was the German Presbyterian Church before it became Most Holy Trinity Slovak…
South Ninth Street Between Russell Boulevard and Geyer Avenue, Soulard
We cross over Russell Boulevard and notice something about this row of Second Empire houses on South Ninth Street. They do not have front doors–only mouse holes leading to the back of the houses, where there would have been exterior staircases allowing access to the upper stories of the building. This was normal and very…
South Ninth Street Between Lami Street and Russell Boulevard, Soulard
Crossing Lami Street and continuing north on South Ninth Street, we pass by a corner store with a turret that most likely once possessed a conical roof, now gone. While we see Second Empire houses, we begin to see earlier houses such as the Greek Revival or as it’s sometimes known, the Federalist Style. At…
South Ninth Street Between Victor and Lami Streets, Soulard
We cross over Victor and continue north. As can be seen below, there are some interesting things to discuss. First, there was settlement on the block to the west, but it was up a steep grade and there are several houses that are no longer present. Sometime later, probably in the 1880s and 1890s, there…
South Ninth Street Between Sidney and Victor Streets, Soulard
I’d looked at South Ninth Street in Soulard back in June of 2015, but I thought it would be worthwhile to take a deeper examination of the street. This first section between Sidney and Victor was once South 8th Street (logical because the next street over to the east is South 7th, after all), but…
Grace Avenue Between Osceola Street and Taft Avenue
Crossing over Osceola Street, we’re immediately struck by the ages of the houses that we see. That’s because this is the Jones and Miltenberger Subdivision laid out in March 28, 1876. You might recognize the Eugene Miltenberger name if you follow my Lemp content; he along with two others owned and subdivided the land where…
Knapp, North Nineteenth, Helen and Benton Streets, St. Louis Place
I was wandering around St. Louis Place when I caught these survivors on one block stretches in between Mullanphy/Howard streets and Madison Avenue. The two buildings above and below are on Knapp Street. Below are the two survivors left on North Nineteenth. Helene Street has much more left, including a bunch of wonderful Second Empire…