I’d heard of railroad hospitals, and the name seemed self-explanatory in that they were hospitals that served the huge number of employees in a dangerous industry, but I had no idea that they were such a critical part of St. Louis employment history and national history, as well. Interestingly, they were primarily in the west…
Tag: Shaw
Mount Olive Lutheran, After The Fire
Fire struck the Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Shaw Boulevard just east of the Missouri Botanical Garden on July 30. I went by and photographed the building on August 4. The congregation was founded in 1926, the church was built in 1931 on the site of single family houses, and the newer wing was constructed…
Shaw Place, Revisited
Due to the giant no trespassing signs written in gold lettering, I had to look at Shaw Place, laid out by Henry Shaw himself, from the public right-of-way. The eight houses, designed by George I. Barnett, were originally intended as rental properties to generate income for Shaw in his Lafayette Addition. Their style was meant…
Southwest Garden, Part Three
Many of the east-west streets have the same names of their counterparts on the other side of the Botanical Garden in Shaw. This is Flad Avenue, I believe, which is a mix of two- and four-family apartments. I do not know what happened to the building above; there was some sort of fire, obviously. The…
Southwest Garden, Part Two
For anyone who doesn’t live in the City of St. Louis, for many residents, “four-family” is a “four-letter word,” if you know what I mean. But what always strikes me about the Southwest Garden neighborhood is how there are so many well-kept and elegant four-family apartment buildings. It proves that bad management and slumlords are…
Southwest Garden, Part One
The Southwest Garden District is one of the strangest shaped, and most dichotomatic neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis. It didn’t make the cut back in 2007 when I was simplifying the neighborhoods I was creating tags for, and the part east of Kingshighway was lumped in with Shaw, and the part to the…
Discovering Shaw, 22: Cleveland Avenue Between Spring Avenue and 39th Street, North Side
The block south of Flad Avenue, which is Cleveland, has rows of houses in the typical “Tower Grove” style, with four rooms down, and four rooms up. They have been renovated nicely, as can be seen in these photos. We also see the school building for St. Margaret of Scotland, which is behind the church….
Discovering Shaw, 21: Flad Avenue Between Grand Boulevard and Spring Avenue, South Side
Heading back west on Flad Avenue away from Grand Boulevard, the south side of the street has a different feel, with the Tudor Revival influenced house above. But there is another more Romanesque Revival house above with its huge tower. Then there are these two magnificent duplexes, which I was told were built by owner…
Discovering Shaw, 20: Flad Avenue Between Spring Avenue and Grand Boulevard, North Side
Like the first blocks west of Grand to the north, the 3600 Block of Flad is filled with impressive single family houses that show their owners’ and builders’ German heritage. Conical-roofed topped towers, turrets and rounded Roman arched windows show the influence of German nationalism, which was high after unification in 1871. Rooflines are also…
Discovering Shaw, 19: Old B’Nai El Synagogue
One of the most historic Jewish congregations in America, B’Nai El called the Shaw neighborhood, at 3666 Flad, home from 1905 to 1930. I realized I photographed their next location on Delmar and several years ago. They are now located on the outer road north of Highway 40 just east of I-270 (you’ve seen it…