Abandoned House, Western St. Louis Place

Right off North Jefferson Avenue I spotted this house, the last one on the block, isolated from the rest of the St. Louis Place neighborhood from the busy thoroughfare on the east (construction signs for the new NGA say “watch for trucks entering and leaving highway”–how apropos to the speeds people drive) and the Sensient…

John Loler House, In Ruins

Update: The ruins have largely been cleared away. There’s not much to say, after the fire that destroyed the John Loler House two Saturdays ago. The ruins will probably sit for a little while, and then be torn down. There was a woman living inside, and she had some of her belongings on the side…

John Loler House, Destroyed by Fire

Update: See the house in ruins a week later; the site was cleared soon after. I was getting ready Saturday evening to head over to the Granite City Art and Design District when I glanced at Twitter, where I follow the St. Louis Fire Department. They were reporting a fire at a “three story house…

Historic American Buildings Survey: The Clemens Mansion

It seems like it’s been far longer, but it’s coming up on three years since fire gutted the James Clemens Mansion, resulting in its final demolition. But back in November of 1960, Paul Piaget photographed the mansion when it was still part of a religious complex as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey, cataloged…

Little Sisters of the Poor, Revisited

Update: After a presence in North St. Louis for around 150 years, the Little Sisters of the Poor sold their campus on December 28, 2022. For whatever reason, the Little Sisters of the Poor is a difficult building to photograph adequately. After being a presence in North St. Louis, and in St. Louis Place since…

St. Louis Avenue West of North Florissant Avenue

I’ve sporadically photographed the block just to the west of North Florissant Avenue, and mainly the buildings on the south side of the street. They’ve all been destroyed on the south side: first the Winkelmann Mansion, then a row of houses in a fire. But the north side of the street has some amazing buildings…

Updates on the Inner North Side

Update: The remaining houses on the north side of the street have been demolished. Two buildings on St. Louis Avenue in JeffVanderLou apparently had become something of celebrities due to some graffiti someone had painted on them years ago. I came by while they were in the process of being demolished; the one on the…

St. Augustine’s, Sunset, Early May, 2020

I no longer worry about St. Augustine’s like I did in the past, now that young and energetic people are working to save it. But I realized that I can still continue to come by at sunset and photograph the edifice in all its glory. And I’m no longer going to use the tag “Abandoned…

Thirteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina

2507-9 Hebert Street are both owned by Paul McKee’s Northside Regeneration. The thirteenth anniversary technically happened yesterday, on the Sixteenth, but I wanted to finish up my series on Dubuque first. What’s one day nowadays, anyway, when days run into the next and weekends are meaningless? I was struggling to think of something to write…