Update: In-fill houses have now been built to the left of the houses in the photo below. There are still some beautiful buildings left in the Tiffany neighborhood, such as this beautiful row of houses and apartments on the north side of Park Avenue east of Grand.
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Tiffany Neighborhood
Update: The area is now seeing new investment as of 2020. I went back and looked at the area in February of 2021 and the fall of 2022. I revisited the former Loretto Hall above in June of 2023. What is there to say about the Tiffany neighborhood, the area south of Chouteau, west of Compton,…
Old United Railways Depot and Car Shop
Update: I revisited the old buildings again in July of 2017. My initial theory of contamination, in hindsight, is ridiculous. I am sure now it was left as a memorial of sorts. What’s with that strange, solitary, rusted column of steel sticking up from the undergrowth behind SLU Hospital, along 39th Street? I looked at…
Pevely Dairy Bottles Saved
Update: Everything except the office building on the corner was demolished in 2012. The office building was demolished in the spring of 2017. The site was largely replaced with a new SLU Hospital. It was a bittersweet sight seeing workers taking the iconic Pevely Dairy Bottle plaques off of the Pevely Dairy office building a…
Pevely Dairy, Coming Down
Update: The Pevely Dairy office building was demolished in the spring of 2017. The Pevely Dairy complex is being torn down, though you might not necessarily see it from Grand. In fact, the street facade is still perfectly preserved until SLU gets the necessary demolition permit, so perhaps there is still a chance they’ll see…
Roundhouse, Chouteau and Vandeventer
All throughout St. Louis locomotives needed somewhere to park, and the roundhouse, a type of structure almost entirely vanished from the region (except in East St. Louis, which you can see here and here) provided the much-needed space to store multiple locomotives in a small space. This one, located at the end of the railyards…
Pevely Dairy Building Will Still Stand For Now
Update: Everything except the office building on the corner was demolished in 2012. The office building was demolished in the spring of 2017. As of today, the Pevely Dairy Complex in Midtown will not be demolished, as SLU has withdrawn its appeal of the denial for a demolition permit.
Pevely Dairy Building
Update: Everything except the office building on the corner was demolished in 2012. The office building was demolished in the spring of 2017. A sturdy, well-built building, the Pevely Dairy almost certainly was constructed with steel reinforced concrete piers that hold up the floors and roof. Consequently, its floor plan is easily adaptable to changing…
Return of the Superblock
Update: SLU built a seldom-used soccer field there. There are now renewed efforts to develop the land to the east of the new SLU Hospital as of 2021. Oh great, what is SLU up to now? Closing streets near large blocks of their land is not a good sign. I’m sure a surface parking lot…
Pevely Building Suffers Devastating Fire
Update: Most of the Pevely complex, except for its office building, was demolished in the summer of 2012. The office building and surrounding streets were demolished for the new SLU Hospital, which opened in 2020. I can’t believe that such a major building is now nothing more than rubble. Thankfully the major intersection of Chouteau…