We picked up West Main Street in Belleville just east of the old Belleville West Township High School and headed southeast for awhile. While it’s still a little residential, it quickly becomes strictly commercial after a block or two, and demonstrates how the city was a bustling center of industry in the Nineteenth Century. Duplexes…
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Hickory Street Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
Our last street we’ll be looking at in the old Staniford Addition is Hickory Street, which was formerly named Elizabeth Street. To the north, what is north LaSalle Street and Florist Row was Virginia Street, another woman’s name (note back on the Compton and Dry it was just a raised right of way in 1876)….
St. Vincent Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
We now jump ahead to the north a bit due to the redevelopment that annihilated a large swath of Compton Hill, which I wrote about at St. Louis Magazine. First known as Lafayatte Town and then the Gate District, I still call this neighborhood by its historic name. While the majority of the urban fabric,…
Lafayette Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
Crossing over the interstate, we reach Lafayette Avenue, which is the 1854 James Eads Addition on the south side of the street, which we see in the photographs below. The pink building above was original an Ice and Fuel building. There has been extensive renovation and redevelopment on Lafayette Avenue in what I call Compton…
Allen Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
Heading east of Ohio Avenue on Allen Avenue towards South Jefferson Avenue, there is a wide variety of houses, some older but many on the newer side relatively. This section of street seems to have developed slower. And the houses that are here look to be from the 1890s and 1900s. The house on the…
Allen Avenue Between California and Ohio Avenues
As is common, in early additions, there is usually at least one street with the same, so of course, since we’re in the Thomas Allen Western Addition, there’s Allen Street, which goes all the way into Soulard, where the wealthy land owner had considerable holdings (he, along with Julia Cerré Soulard created that neighborhood as…
Russell Boulevard Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
I looked at the block in between Ohio and South Jefferson avenues back in November of 2017, and caught some of the same houses as we see today. This is part of the Thomas Allen Western Addition from 1869, as well, so the houses along here would date to as early as the late 1870s,…
Russell Boulevard Between California and Ohio Avenues
I’ve looked at the stunning block of Russell Boulevard numerous times over the years since it’s one of my favorite stretches of houses in the city. Following the street naming convention of “Indian tribes,” this section was originally known as Pontiac Street. One time was back in March of 2015 when I focused on the…
Ann Avenue Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues
I actually looked at Ann Avenue back in November of 2017 in two parts, here and here, in between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues. Back then, the storefront that would become the restaurant Savage was yet to be renovated; the windows are now covered again. You either got a chance to eat there or you…
Armand Place Between California and Ohio Avenues
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be looking at the east-west streets in Fox Park and Compton Hill in between California and South Jefferson Avenues. We’ll start in the south with Armand Place and work our way north, ending with Hickory Avenue in the north. This first block is the Sarpy’s Subdivision…