As is typical of all the east-west streets west of Kingshigway, as Neosho gets closer to the major north-south artery, the houses get larger and two story. But they are still single family. This is an interesting development, because as one travels north, multi-family housing begins to predominate as the housing stock gets closer to…
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Neosho Street Between Brannon Avenue and Kingshighway, Part One
Heading east from the southern end of Brannon Avenue, we see a rarity on this street, which is a four-family that is more typical of neighborhoods to the east. But then we reach the northern end of the dogleg of Brannon, and the houses turn back to what is typical along this stretch of Neosho….
Neosho Street Between Macklind and Brannon Avenues
Passing by Macklind Avenue, we continue to see Arts and Crafts bungalows and two-families, which we would expect in the 1910s and 20s in St. Louis. There is this curious house style above, which also appears elsewhere on this street, with a simple shed roof covered in red clay tile. But then the houses go…
Neosho Street Between January and Macklind Avenues
We continue to the east past January Avenue and the diagonal Wherry Street on Neosho Street, and for awhile we still see Gingerbread style houses. But then something changes, and it’s very obvious, even in the color of the brick and other building materials. We have now gone back at least one or two decades,…
Neosho Street Between Hampton and January Avenues, Part Two
Continuing down the block, we see more of the Gingerbread houses that were typical of the western portion. We reach January Avenue at this point, which like the other north-south streets, is two-way in both directions and does not yield to the east-west one-way streets.
Neosho Street Between Hampton and January Avenues, Part One
We’ll look at Neosho Street over the next several days, starting in the west at Hampton Avenue and going east and back in time, so to speak. Of course, first we seen rows and rows of Gingergbread style houses, which is what we sort of describe as Neo-Gothic Revival architecture, and is very special and…
Hope Lutheran Church
Originally opening as Hope Evangelical Lutheran in 1916, here we have an interesting example of a church in the Italian Romanesque Revival style on the outside. You’ve got your typical hallmarks: small windows, a stout massing and a campanile with a red tile roof. And inside, rotund columns with Roman arches creating arcades separating the…
Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church
Sited on a prominent stretch of Loughborough Avenue in St. Louis Hills, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, designed by famed Modernist architect Harris Armstrong, was completed in 1960. See interior views at Built St. Louis; I agree with Rob’s appraisal that the clerestory was surely not originally painted sky blue, but was probably gray. The church…
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tucked away on a quiet side street in St. Louis Hills, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church might very well be one of the first expressions of Modernist ecclesiastic architecture in St. Louis. The church, constructed in 1939, created quite the stir when it opened, and was featured in a glowing review article in the Globe-Democrat by…
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…