I traveled around The Ville some more and it has been devastated. Yes, there was already a fair amount of abandonment and vacant lots, but what was intact and in good condition was damaged badly. Sumner High School suffered extensive loss of its roof, as well as some windows, from what I understand. It was…
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After the Tornado: Around the Ville and Greater Ville
Fountain Park, which has been in the news a bunch already, was crowded with disaster relief efforts so I continued on, not wanting to get in the way. I headed up North Taylor Avenue, taking a quick look at the Lewis Place neighborhood before heading into The Ville. I’ve looked at the building above before,…
Kennerly Avenue East of Annie Malone Drive, The Ville
Starting to the east of the houses you can see in the last photo of this post from November of 2024, we first see the two-family above. On the south side of Kennerly is the former Homer G. Phillips Hospital, which has since been converted into senior housing. It’s interesting to see how the four…
Garfield Avenue Between Billups Avenue and Annie Malone Drive, The Ville
Heading east, we look at more houses that we saw back in November, with the foliage and undergrowth died off for the winter. The house below has a huge hole in the roof; it surely is not occupied.
Garfield Avenue Between North Newstead and Billups Avenue, The Ville
I somehow managed to randomly end up going down the same street I had detoured down back in back in late October of 2024, which was Garfield Avenue east of North Newstead Avenue. How this happened I don’t know, but it is interesting to see how the street changed in just two months. The light…
Kennerly Avenue Shotguns, The Ville, Revisited Yet Again
I’ve long been fascinated with the long, shotgun wood frame houses scattered throughout all of St. Louis, largely because it seems that they’re sort of forgotten about. And I honestly think they were built as “temporary” houses, built out in the exurbs and country with that Nineteenth Century optimism that the burgeoning metropolis would eventually…
Around Cote Brilliante Avenue, The Ville
I somehow ended up on Garfield Avenue east of North Newstead Avenue in the Ville due to Cote Brilliante Avenue being blocked off, so my journey on the latter street became a little obtuse. But the abandonment continued. The house above was only boarded up recently. This little church further down the block is still…
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…
The Ville, July 2022
I took a short look at The Ville on a bright and sweltering Saturday recently. Despite the frequent reports of doom and gloom, much of the neighborhood has a lot going for it. There are many streets that are lined with some nice in-fill, and I hope can be built in the future. I definitely…
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…