La Hacienda subdivision was laid out in the early 1930s, and the housing stock ranges from then to the 1950s. It is a unique blend of many different types of houses, from the Spanish Revival, like its gates, to the Tudor Revival. The Prado is the main boulevard entrance off of Ladue Road, just west…
Tag: Spanish Revival
The Spanish Revival Mansion
Built in 1924, this cool Spanish Revival mansion way out in West County surely has a fascinating story behind it. In that year, this was out in the middle of nowhere. It looks like a Maritz and Young-influenced home.
Educate Yourself By Any Means Necessary!!
On the side of a barber and beauty salon as well as a bail bondsman office on St. Louis Avenue at Norwood Avenue. Various famous bounty hunters are depicted on the front of the building.
Ziegenhein Funeral Home
Logically, many funeral homes are located across the street from major churches or cemeteries, such as the Ziegenhein Funeral Home. I photographed it before back in 2016.
Old Shriners’ Hospital
Update: Construction was completed in 2019. The old Shriners’ Hospital, still receiving the finishing touches on its renovation in this photograph, is now open as apartments.
Engine House No. 8
This fire station is interesting in that it occupies a small portion of the corner of Hyde Park. It is still Engine House No, 8.
Central Institute for the Deaf
People have been hyperventilating for years that this wonderful Spanish Colonial Revival building, which was built for a school that served the deaf, was going to be torn down. It is obviously being renovated right now, so everyone can calm down.
Milton Boulevard, Compton Heights
Hawthorne and Longfellow Boulevards are famous in Compton Heights, branching off as they do from the gates right off of Grand Boulevard, but there’s also Milton Boulevard, which cuts off (and is a two-way street) from Hawthorne over to Nebraska Avenue. It’s a cool street.
Fairgrounds Neighborhood, Revisited
The Fairgrounds neighborhood is isolated by closed streets and Fairground Park on the south, but it is an interesting, eclectic neighborhood, architecturally. I photographed Lee Avenue in November of 2015 and December of 2019. I returned in the summer of 2023. It shows evidence of having been built up over a very long time, and…
Abandoned Parish School, Dutchtown
Update: The school has been renovated into apartments. Another school sits vacant and vandalized; this time it is the old parish school of St. Thomas Aquin. The caramel terracotta, seen in Southwest St. Louis, looks like marble. Here it is, almost one hundred years ago, in better times. The windows are not broken out, but…