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.
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Streets Around Macklind Avenue, Princeton Heights
Princeton Heights is tucked in between Kingshighway and Hampton, with houses dating to the first decades of the Twentieth Century to the 1960s. It is sited on rolling hills, and feels like a million miles away from downtown, even though it is relatively close via Gravois. Houses have moved on from true red brick, to…
Parkshire Apartments
The Parkshire Apartments are tucked in between Gravois and Hampton, in between Gatewood Gardens Cemetery and a Schnucks. They continue the long tradition of four-family flats in St. Louis, but they’ve been updated to the 1950s. Their garages are prominent features in the back, along the alleys.
Stamm Children’s Graves, New Picker’s Cemetery
These three children all died in the 1880s, some young children, and one a baby. These were probably some of the oldest graves in the cemetery.
New Picker’s Cemetery, Gatewood Gardens Cemetery
Update: Added City plat maps showing boundaries of both New Picker’s/Gatewood Gardens and Sts. Peter and Paul cemeteries to the end of this post in July of 2020. New Picker’s Cemetery, or Gatewood Gardens Cemetery as it’s now known, possesses some of the oldest history in the City of St. Louis. It traces its roots…
Streets Leading Away from Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
The same eclectic styles of houses continue onto side streets, which are predominantly single family houses. Main streets leading away from Francis Park continue to have more multi-family units. Perhaps it’s intentional; the younger, more night-life oriented renters can come and go from their apartments on major arteries without disturbing the older, child-rearing neighbors on…
South Side of Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
The south side of Francis Park is totally different; here, ranch houses proliferate, though still in a myriad of iterations, mixing and matching. Does anyone know who lives in this house? Why is there a giant digital clock in the window?
East Side of Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
Single family houses return to the east side of Francis Park, with simplified versions of earlier revival styles popular throughout St. Louis history. It almost seems if builders were responding to the dictates of Modernism as they simplified and streamlined their
North Side of Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
Heading clockwise around Francis Park, we encounter this little Orthodox church, and then a string of apartment buildings on the north side of the park. Like their Nineteenth Century ancestors, I always remark at what great lengths builders go in this city to camouflage multi-family dwellings. The architecture defies easy explanation of style, they’re a…
West Side of Francis Park, St. Louis Hills
I don’t get down to the Southwest corner of St. Louis very often; I tend to stay inside Grand Boulevard. But when I do get down this way, I’m always blown away by the inventiveness and creativity of the architecture. St. Louis Hills (a single neighborhood that is often conflated to refer to half a…