The Beauty of Dutchtown Series left off with No. 52 and continues with No. 54. The crossroads of South Jefferson Avenue, South Broadway (originally Carondelet Road) and Chippewa Street creates one of the more interesting intersections in St. Louis. It’s where the traffic from downtown passed by the suburbs of South St. Louis on its…
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Odds and Ends
When I’m out and about, I sometimes snap pictures of interesting buildings that later expand into larger posts, but other times, I can’t figure out what to do with them. These photos are “outtakes;” buildings that are worth publishing but didn’t grow into anything else. Above, this is an old warehouse complex on Texas Avenue…
Former Burger Chef, Arsenal and Jefferson
Just to the north of the beautiful street wall of Nineteenth Century buildings lining South Jefferson north of Wyoming, a parking lot appears. A keen eye will see that faded but still visible paint, including a yellow arrow can be seen in the cracked and deteriorating asphalt. Then, like at Pompeii, a ceramic floor appears,…
Jefferson and Gravois, Revisited
I’ve looked at the intersection of South Jefferson and Gravois avenues in July of 2012, and I came back over the course of several months to photograph the crossing of two of the most important streets in the inner South Side. It’s come a long way from when it was a small exurban village surrounded…
Jefferson Avenue at Interstate 44
Here we go again; more crumbling infrastructure has to be torn down and replaced; in Baby Boomers’ lifetimes we are now going on the third bridge in some parts of St. Louis, such as the Grand Viaduct. Interstate 44 has caused irreparable damage to South St. Louis; the Barr Branch of the St. Louis Public…
Four Family Flat, South Jefferson
I see amazing buildings such as this one along South Jefferson Avenue, and I think what possibility they hold, but it’s rough with the heavy traffic going by. There are windows out there that can block out the noise (my friends who used to own the Declaration Independence Neudorf House proved this to me), but…
Jefferson Avenue, Between Arsenal and Gravois
Continuing north, here is the west side of Jefferson between Arsenal and Gravois. The following building, the Gravois Theater, was next, but has been demolished. From here, this is Jefferson from Gravois south to Arsenal.
Jefferson Avenue, Between Utah and Arsenal
Continuing north, we see the west side of Jefferson between Utah and Arsenal. The house below of course was the residence of one of the owners of the Cherokee Brewery. Below on the left is the Declaration Independence Neudorf House. Update: See the parking lot of the former fast food restaurant to the north in…
Jefferson Avenue, Between Winnebago and Utah
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that I created a new Special Topics tag a month or so entitled “South Jefferson.” South of Interstate 44, the original Nineteenth Century streetscape is incredibly well-preserved, so for the next couple of days, I’m featuring both sides of the street to complement pre-existing documentation of this thoroughfare. First up…
East Side of Jefferson Avenue, South of Potomac Street
I’ve long thought that South Jefferson, south of where I-44 cut a gash through the city, is a fascinating relic of what a major Nineteenth Century artery in St. Louis looked like. It do not believe Jefferson was ever widened in the Early Twentieth Century, so it preserves the look of the way it looked…