I also wanted to check up on the Greater Ville, primarily heading east down Ashland Avenue, the major east-west street two blocks south of Natural Bridge Avenue. The photos above and below are from the 4500 block of Ashland, which I looked at way back in January of 2019. The houses below are in the…
Tag: The Greater Ville
Maffitt Avenue From the Greater Ville into The Ville
Hopping off St. Louis Avenue, I took a look at some of the houses on Maffitt Avenue, heading east through the Greater Ville and then The Ville. I spotted this unique one story hipped roof half flounder above. There is a wide variety of housing stock, from the earliest, wood frame houses that probably date…
St. Louis Avenue Between Euclid and Marcus Avenues
I’ve looked at this section of St. Louis Avenue before, back in December of 2018, but I spotted some houses that I hadn’t noticed before. It’s also always interesting to see how houses, such as the ones below, slowly evolve over the decades, with ornamentation, such as the ones in the attic, are removed. I’ve…
Hammett Place
Hammett Place is one of those special places that I found on accident and that I suspect most people in the St. Louis region have never heard of before. Whilte technically part of a neighborhood created by the City government in the late Twentieth Century called Kingsway East, it’s tucked away on the edge of…
The Squeezed Streets, Wabada and Highland Avenues, The Western Greater Ville
This is a little hard to explain, but the streets of the western Greater Ville were not laid out by any higher authority, and they were once part of a larger estate known as the Papin Tract. Consequently, they’re all messed up, becoming incredibly narrow, having houses on only one side of the street, dead-ending…
Northland Avenue, The Western Greater Ville
Moving a little to the southwest, I took a look at the houses on Northland Avenue between Euclid and Marcus avenues. I definitely see the irony of how just a couple of miles north on Euclid Avenue, after looking at its path in the Central West End a couple of weeks ago, can make such…
Labadie Avenue, The Western Greater Ville
For some reason I got on this kick to explore the western side of The Greater Ville neighborhood. Starting at the intersection of Marcus and Labadie, where Cote Brilliante Presbyterian sits on the northeast corner, I headed east. I think the Greater Ville has some of the most interesting an idiosyncratic architecture in the city,…
End of Summer Odds and Ends
I first would like to invite readers out to my free lecture on the history of the Lemp Brewery tomorrow, at 11:00 AM, September 20, 2022 at the Missouri History Museum. Its architecture was born out of the designs of highly influential architects Edmund Jungenfeld; Theodore Krausch; Widman, Walsh and Boisselier; and Guy Tyler Norton. I will be…
Natural Bridge Avenue Between North Taylor and Cora Avenues, South Side
Moving along to the west, the streetscape past a short row of storefronts is more of the same for what we would expect in the Greater Ville, expect we are along a major street. For whatever reason, the grassy median has now transformed to a broad swath of concrete, and it is bare and white….
Natural Bridge Avenue Between Paris and North Taylor Avenues, South Side
When we last left off on our examination of the south side of Natural Bridge Avenue heading west, we had stopped at Clay Avenue. Much of the urban fabric west of there until Paris Avenue has been ruined for autocentric development, so let’s pick up there. The housing stock, even though it’s on a major…