Victor Street, just east of South Grand Boulevard in Tower Grove East, is another well-kept secret with beautiful houses and an interesting apartment building in the Roehampton Addition. The house below actually sat abandoned for decades before being taken in court and is now being renovated by a responsible woman-owned development company. Other houses look…
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Sidney Street Between Arkansas Avenue and South Grand Boulevard
Laid out in 1895 by Juliuis Pitzman, the Roehampton Addition possesses some of the largest and grandest homes in Tower Grove East in the blocks just to the east of Grand Boulevard. The addition is named after an area of Greater London southwest of the central city. The houses are large and eclectic, and while…
South Compton Avenue, Tower Grove East, Twenty Years Later
Back in 2004, Tower Grove East was not quite the same neighborhood that it is today, and many more houses sat vacant and crumbling. I found this random photo right before these houses would be renovated. What a difference twenty years makes.
Stained Glass, Nighttime, International Institute, Former St. Elizabeth’s
I was walking by the International Institute recently at night, and the stained glass windows, depicting various strong women from the Bible were lit up beautifully in the icy cold.
It’s a Good Thing Bad Taste Isn’t a Crime
I’ll fully concede that this four-family had already been screwed up for years before the current rehabber bought it, but that does not excuse what’s happened to this long-suffering property in the last six months. Cheap crap that will fail when the next unsuspecting owner years from now owns it makes my blood boil. The…
Completion at South Compton and Arsenal?
I guess they’re done repairing the corner of the building that was hit back in July of 2021? It survived the initial impact, as I showed in August of the same year, and then languished for a long time before reconstruction began in earnest earlier this year. I like how they imitated the crappy mortar…
Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part Two
North of Pestalozzi, there is an interesting mix of houses past the corner store that appears to have been converted into an apartment. It is a quiet street because it dead ends at Magnolia Avenue. I’ve looked at many of the oldest houses on the next block, back in September of 2015, including the one…
Pennsylvania Avenue, Tower Grove East, Revisited, Part One
Moving past the intersection of Gravois, Arsenal and Pennsylvania, which I’ve looked at in June of 2011, May of 2014 and 2019, we pass by the Grant School, which I looked at back in October of 2020, we pass through a very old section of Tower Grove East that I first looked at way back…
Movement at the Corner of South Compton Avenue and Arsenal Street
The building was finally rebuilt in the spring of 2023. Reconstruction of the storefront at the northwest corner of South Compton and Arsenal finally got going a couple of months ago, and while they had to simplify the ornamentation due to damage to terracotta panels, I am still happy that’s happening. Now I hope they…
Bavarian Inn, More Progress
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…