In the late 1920s, the R. Mederacke Realty and Investment Company began the development of what was originally known as Grantwood Terrace, just to the east of Grant’s Farm on Gravois Road. Lots were at least 100 feet wide and ranged from 240 to 350 feet deep. Architectural styles were typical of the time period…
Tag: Spanish Revival
St. Louis Hills, November 2024
I was in St. Louis Hills so I thought I would see if I could find as many Spanish Revival houses as possible. I ran out of ones to find after awhile. The house above was probably not painted white originally. The houses and apartment buildings of St. Louis Hills represent an interesting transition from…
Locust Street Between Cardinal and Huntley Avenues
Moving east, there are more businesses that replaced houses. The photo above is perhaps the southeast corner, but I can’t be sure. The house in the background is gone for certain. The Fountain on Locust has become a famous restaurant in the amazing Spanish Revival building below. While this building below was marked for demolition,…
Algonquin Place Over to West Jackson Road
Taking its name from the historic golf club across West Lockwood Avenue, Algonquin Place possesses a host of houses from the 1910s and 20s. Not surprisingly, there are many Tudor Revival homes. There are also larger houses that I might describe as upper class examples of the Arts and Crafts style with their use of…
Wydown Forest
Wydown Forest is another one of those subdivisions that developed along Hanley Road, and when we look at the plat map for it above (north and south are inverted), we see like many of these early Twentieth Century automobile suburbs, there are triangular parks placed at strategic locations, creating long vistas and curving lines. Wydown…
Hampton Park
Oops, I accidentally wandered into Hampton Park, which is southeast of the intersection of Hanley and Clayton roads. This is a later design of Julius Pitzman, platted in 1897, and one of his most important outside of the City of St. Louis. The earliest home dates from 1909. Like Lake Forest, across Hanley, this area…
Forsyth Boulevard West of the City Limits
It dawned on me that Forsyth Boulevard west of Forest Park is the natural continuation of that parade of mansions along Lindell Boulevard, many designed by Maritz and Young, that terminates at Washington University. As was already present on Lindell, the houses are positioned laterally towards the street wall, reflecting their owners’ reliance on the…
Moorlands / Claverach Park
I almost certainly will go back, but I made a first foray into one of the most interesting and beautiful additions to Clayton, just west of Big Bend Boulevard and Forest Ridge and Southmoor, and south of Brentmoor. Developed by the Moorlands Land Company, Moorlands Park, now known as Claverach Park, was platted in May…
St. Mary’s Hospital, Winter 2024
Wow, just look at what St. Mary’s Hospital used to look like almost one hundred years ago when they had moved from their Near South Side location. The wing on the left was demolished back in 2010, which seems like a million years ago. There is a little bit of a wing, perhaps built in…
More of the Moorlands, Part Two
We continue on Cromwell before turning left onto Audobon and then another left onto Wellington Way. By the way, a moorland is a highland with grasses and savannahs, particularly common in England. It is no surprise then that the name was chosen for a neighborhood built when the Tudor Revival was so popular. But the…