I had been wondering why there had been no activity at the old Bavarian Inn site for a while. After sitting vacant for a long time, there had been rapid renovation work earlier in 2022. But now, in the last couple of weeks, the new windows have shown up, and the building and renovation is…
Tag: Tower Grove East
The Edge of Tower Grove East, Nebraska Avenue Between Sidney Street and Shenandoah Avenue
Passing over Sidney Street, the street grid switches from long north-south blocks to longer east-west grids, so there are more utilitarian structures such as garages facing Nebraska Avenue. I don’t remember this store ever being open, but that vending machine has always been in operation. This alley house looks to be occupied. Then there’s this…
The Edge of Tower Grove East, Nebraska Avenue Between Magnolia Avenue and Sidney Street
Crossing Magnolia Avenue, former Rappahannock Street, we see the side of one of my favorite houses in St. Louis. It’s interesting as there is really sort of just a stock housing mass in this city, and then builders would simply add different fronts. It’s illustrated perfectly here. I’ve photographed the Magnolia elevation here (fourth photo)….
The Edge of Tower Grove East, Nebraska Avenue Between Pestalozzi Street and Magnolia Avenue
Tower Grove East is a strange neighborhood. In the eyes of many people, it is a junior version of Tower Grove South, or should I say, Tower Grove Heights, with its rows of early Twentieth Century suburban houses. But in reality, the eastern portion the neighborhood has roots going back to the mid-Nineteenth Century, when…
Schiller’s Grove and the Former St. Elizabeth’s Academy
I had long known that the former St. Elizabeth’s High School and convent, now the International Institute, had once had a larger chapel that had been partially demolished when its new Modernist wing had been built in the 1960s in Tower Grove East. Christopher Schiller, owner of the Swan Tavern on the Levee, had bought…
Odds and Ends from the Winter of 2022
Occasionally I build up some photos that don’t really go with anything else, and I present them to you here. Above is a nice house on Lemp Avenue across from the brewery that is now an AirBnB. For the longest time, it was a band practice space. Moving across the old St. Louis Commons to…
Shenandoah Arch Replaced
Back in January of 2020, I featured the four-family on Shenandoah Avenue whose front porch was later demolished due to structural problems (it was almost certainly not original to the building). Lo and behold, it has been completely rebuilt, which is great news, as it added a lot of character to the Tower Grove East…
Renovation of the Old Bavarian Inn
Update: See the progress of construction in the fall of 2022. There’s some great news at the long dormant and abandoned, and frequently vandalized former Bavarian Inn restaurant at the southeastern corner of Arsenal Street and Minnesota Avenue. The rehabilitation will return a restaurant space and outdoor patio to the old storefront facing Arsenal, and…
Arsenal Avenue Between South Compton and Michigan Avenues, South Side, Tower Grove East
I looked at Arsenal Avenue between Michigan and Minnesota avenues a while back, so I thought I would look at the south side of that street between the former state street and South Compton on a resplendent Saturday morning. You can see the north side of the street in this post. First up, above is…
Checking in on South Compton Avenue and Arsenal Street
I’m impressed that work has already started on repairing the damage to the high value corner storefront at the northwest corner of South Compton Avenue and Arsenal Street, which was hit by an out-of-control driver several weeks ago. The terracotta and brick has been carefully stacked and sorted for reinstallation. Note the square cut-out in…