I’ve been creating new tags for notable streets in St. Louis that I feel represent great cross sections of architecture and culture (such as North Broadway or Cherokee, and the newly introduced South Jefferson), and I’m now introducing a “St. Louis Avenue” tag, for what I believe is a street that best illustrates the North…
Tag: St. Louis Avenue
Winkelmann Mansion Property For Sale, and Other Follies
Update: Construction on the “green” houses started back up again in mid to late 2019. Oh hey, if you’d like to buy the vacant lot at the corner of St. Louis Avenue and 20th Street, it’s for sale, minus the historic mansion that Paul McKee let collapse and be demolished back in 2013. Meanwhile, another…
Revisiting St. Louis Place, Early February 2019
I went by the site of the old Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, which is still a vacant lot since it was first damaged by a fire and then demolished. I was intrigued by a rectangle of concrete with rough aggregate in the middle of the lot–was this a relic of the old church? I…
The Greater Ville in Extensus
I will be looking at the Greater Ville neighborhood for the next couple of weeks. I’ve looked at The Ville before. The Ville was the old wood frame exurb of Elleardsville, where segregation forced St. Louis’s African American middle class to live. The Greater Ville, horseshoe shaped and embracing the smaller Ville neighborhood around it…
St. Louis Avenue, Cora to Grand
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets that stretches the length of the Northside. Moving further east of Cora Avenue in The Ville and Greater Ville area,…
St. Louis Avenue, Kingshighway to Cora
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets that stretches the length of the Northside. I revisited the area in the winter of 2023. East of Kingshighway, we…
St. Louis Avenue, Union to Kingshighway
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets that stretches the length of the Northside. The blocks in between Union and Kingshighway Boulevards in North City are densely…
St. Louis Avenue, Hamilton to Union
I’ve long documented St. Louis Avenue between N. Florissant and Parnell, and from Parnell to Grand, so now I will take a closer look at the secondary artery cobbled together from a series of streets that stretches the length of the Northside. St. Louis Avenue ends in Wells-Goodfellow at Hamilton Avenue (right where this house…
Taylor at St. Louis Avenue, Early October 2018
Update: By January of 2020, these buildings have been demolished. Where northbound Taylor Avenue ends at St. Louis Avenue (it picks up as a one-way southbound just to the west a couple hundred feet) sits these buildings. I could have sworn I’ve photographed these buildings before, but I can’t seem to find their picture. I…
Sarah and St. Louis Avenues, Revisited September 2018
I’ve long said the intersection of North Sarah Street and St. Louis Avenue in the historic Ville (or technically Greater Ville on the north side of the street) neighborhood has one of the most cohesive and beautiful ensemble of corner storefronts in the city. But as I’ve been documenting for years, the most famous corner, the…