More Tudor Revival splendor at the intersection of Kingshighway and Gravois, at the old Ittner-Milligan school that is now a charter school. The building is shaped like a cursive letter V, and uses the odd shaped plot of land in its design. Update: Added historic photograph of the school in July of 2020.
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Fifth Spiritualist Church of St. Louis
On probably one of the oddest shaped parcels in the City of St. Louis, the Fifth Spiritualist Church of St. Louis is new to me. Their website explains their beliefs here. (Update: Link is broken) Wedged in between two much older buildings, it looks to have been built sometime in the mid-Twentieth Century.
Evangelical Church of the Redeemer
Constructed in 1921 under more or less the same name, the Evangelical Church of the Redeemer dates back to when this was still largely rural, and is still going strong from its original Lutheran roots. It has that English Gothic Revival style so popular in the early Twentieth Century, in contrast to the German and…
Kingshighway at Gravois Avenue
Kingshighway, the busiest traffic artery in St. Louis, comes to a rather anticlimactic end at a group of beautiful buildings on Gravois Avenue. But again, occupancy is good, and there is an interesting mix of building stock. There’s this cool streamline modern storefront reskin. With its original stainless steel or chrome doors. ?? This turreted…
Gravois at the City Limits
Gravois Avenue tries to keep its urban character right up to the city limits, but the Missouri Department of Transport has done its best to make this stretch of historic buildings about as inhospitable to human beings as possible. It’s too bad, because the houses lining the side streets would be perfect for families to…
South Hampton Avenue and Side Streets, Princeton Heights
I love the Modernist houses built after World War II in the southwestern corners of the City. But my, what a miserable urban environment, as traffic flies by on Hampton. The street might get plowed right away, but what is like to live along here? I love all of the manicured lawns, a sort of…
Schollmeyer and Loughborough Avenues, Princeton Heights
Schollmeyer Avenue bends around and connects with Loughborough Avenue, a major artery in Southwest St. Louis. The right-of-way looks huge! The houses are set way back with their front mound far back from the street. There are some great four-family flats along here, as well. And there are some great commercial buildings, as seen below….
Fast Food Tableau
Also, I’m part of a panel discussion on Thursday, November 3rd at 6:30 PM for the opening night of the St. Louis International Film Festival, featuring Bill Streeter’s new documentary, St. Louis Brews, in which I appear. Tickets are available here.
Further Down Macklind, Princeton Heights
Further down the street, the mix of various early Twentieth Century styles prevail. Houses sit on the east-west streets, and traffic is funneled down the north-south streets.