Moving west of North 23rd Street, we see much less lavish homes. And if we look closely many, but not all, are actually two-family houses. I always joke in St. Louis architects designed multi-family houses to look like single families. Of course, there are obvious multi-family apartment buildings like the ones below. But as I’ve…
Tag: St. Louis Place
St. Louis Avenue Between North 22nd and North 23rd Streets, South Side
While I’ve looked at St. Louis Avenue numerous times over the last eighteen years, I’ve never actually published any photographs of the south side of the street in St. Louis Place (except for ones that have all been demolished and this one weird one). We’ll start at North 22nd Street and work west. First up,…
Knapp, North Nineteenth, Helen and Benton Streets, St. Louis Place
I was wandering around St. Louis Place when I caught these survivors on one block stretches in between Mullanphy/Howard streets and Madison Avenue. The two buildings above and below are on Knapp Street. Below are the two survivors left on North Nineteenth. Helene Street has much more left, including a bunch of wonderful Second Empire…
Former Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
There’s something deeply depressing about the vacant lot at University and and North 25th streets in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. There once stood one of the most unique churches in the Archdiocese, and it burned and was eventually demolished. Atypical for a Catholic church, it was an auditorium style sanctuary, and probably featured one…
Twenty-Three Years of Paul McKee: St. Louis Place
St. Louis Place has whole streets that once had houses owned by Paul McKee, and one by one, I documented how they were destroyed by brick thieves back in 2008 St. Louis Avenue now is seeing real estate speculation due to the new NGA, which was part of the Northside TIF. In one of the…
Twenty-Three Years of Paul McKee: St. Augustine’s
Next, on my tour of the area damaged by Paul McKee’s Northside TIF, I headed towards what was left of St. Augustine. Illegal dumping is very common in the blocks where houses once stood but were demolished after brick theft destroyed homes. This private club is still going, I think. The tower of St. Augustine’s…
6,500th Post: Twenty-Three Years of Paul McKee
Wow, I suppose 6,500 posts have a way of sneaking up on you! I also suppose since Paul McKee and his failed Northside TIF is in the news, it would be germane to talk about it and how I’ve been investigating and shedding light on his dealings for eighteen years now. Some of the first…
Mullanphy Tenement, Revisited November 2024
It has been over a decade since I last visited the Mullanphy Tenement back in September of 2013 (I first visited back in the winter of 2009), and I was wondering what was happening with the historic building. The answer? Absolutely nothing! The famous “Buy/Sell/Trade” sign has disappeared, but other than that, it looks largely…
St. Augustine’s Spire Still Standing, For Now
Contrary to the reports of one local news program, the final demolition of the spire of St. Augustine did not occur last week. I went by on Saturday, and as I had learned from a source already, it was still standing. A Caterpillar was screwing around with a pile of bricks. It reminds me of…
Seventeenth Anniversary of St. Louis Patina, St. Augustine’s, Dusk, May 4th
We’re getting closer to two decades here at St. Louis Patina, rounding out our seventeenth year, and what better way to commemorate it than looking at St. Augustine, which is slowly coming to an end after years of neglect. So we’re left with another landmark destroyed.