A reader recommended I look at the 2800 block of Indiana Avenue in Benton Park, which is in between Pestalozzi Avenue and Lynch Street. I’ve looked at the block of Indiana just to the north back in December of 2022, as well as a section to the south back in June of 2015. I’ve also…
Tag: Second Empire
Architectural Variety, Ste. Genevieve
Here’s a scattering of other buildings along Main Street in Ste. Genevieve, showing what a wide variety of architectural styles there are in the town. This first house, now a restaurant looks to have been more Greek Revival and was the changed to looks more Colonial Revival with the front porch and framing around the…
5,500th Post at St. Louis Patina
Thinking back over 5,500 posts, give or take since some were lost when this website crashed a year ago, for some reason this post from February of 2015 popped into my head. It’s interesting in that my 5,000th post also dealt with a subject from the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I was always drawn to…
Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part Two
North of Pestalozzi, there is an interesting mix of houses past the corner store that appears to have been converted into an apartment. It is a quiet street because it dead ends at Magnolia Avenue. I’ve looked at many of the oldest houses on the next block, back in September of 2015, including the one…
Iowa Avenue Opposite St. Francis de Sales
The west side of Iowa Avenue in between Lynch Street (which continues as sort of an afterthought west of Gravois) and Sidney Street opposite of St. Francis de Sales has some interesting houses. The first house above has an explanation of why it sits at an angle. It was most likely built before the addition…
New Lease on Life
I was alerted by a valued and longtime reader to the recent commencement of major tuckpointing and masonry rebuilding of the beautiful Second Empire storefront at the diagonal intersection of Lynch, Ohio and Gravois in the Fox Park neighborhood, just to the south of St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Oratory. On-line City records show…
Tower Grove South Coal Diggings, Beckville, Tholozan Avenue and Environs
Moving to the north side of Beckville, which is the south side of Tholozan Avenue, there are more old houses that most likely date back to the early days of coal mining in the area. There is even a rare Italianate wood frame house. Below we see another one of those tract duplexes with the…
End of Winter 2023 Odds and Ends
The old Soulard Branch of the St. Louis Public Library has had several uses over the last decade besides the commercial space facing 7th Boulevard. There was “The Library” and then “The Archives.” They’re both gone. Below, in McKinley Heights, I still can’t believe that Second Empire house below is sitting vacant; the property values…
Arsenal Street Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues, North Side
Why? Just why? We cross over Ohio Avenue as we continue our trek east down Arsenal Street, looking at the north side of the major east-west thoroughfare. We looked at the south side of the street back in May of 2022. I was actually pleasantly surprised with how this business cleaned up and reopened this…
Arsenal Street Between Iowa and Ohio Avenues, North Side
Leaving Iowa Avenue behind, we see more rehabbing going on as we look at the north side of Arsenal Street. We looked at the south side of the street back in May of 2022. This block is intact, with just the interruption of the alley, showing how the street grid crooked due the presence of…