Near Mid Rivers Mall we came upon the neatest trailer park, complete with a stone entryway with the name, Eldorado. The clubhouse is the Spanish Revival style, and there is a bridge over a creek in back to some basketball courts. It was well kept, and it shows that these parks are scattered throughout the…
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Enclaves of St. Louis #5: River Bluff Place
I learned about this short, one block long street a couple of years ago just east of South Broadway a couple of years ago from some residents. Taking its name from Chouteau’s Bluff, which rises just north of Carondelet and then continues for over a mile or so, there are dramatic views of the Mississippi…
Bethesda Lutheran Church, Pine Lawn
I stumbled across this interesting church on my way somewhere else, and I stopped to take a closer look at it. Constructed in 1949 for Bethesda Lutheran Church, it has now become the home of Faith Lutheran Church since 2019 when the latter congregation relocated from its original location at 3060 Lucas and Hunt Road….
Grantwood Village
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…
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…