I was sitting at the light at South Spring Avenue and Gravois Avenue and caught these buildings lying along the north side of the latter. It’s a reminder that Gravois used to be a pedestrian oriented street, before houses were torn down and replaced with parking lots for fast-food restaurants. Unfortunately, due to the noise…
Tag: Tower Grove South
American Can Company
The American Can Company really didn’t close that long ago; I have a friend who worked there when he was young. The New York-based company had locations around the United States, and during World War II, the factory, like so many around the country, pivoted to producing war materiel. As I think pretty much everyone…
Wyoming Avenue Between Bent and Oak Hill Avenues
Moving east, the houses start to show the influence of their early Twentieth Century construction, though there is the occasional late Nineteenth Century Queen Anne style house thrown in, stripped of its elaborate millwork. Below is a strange juxtaposition of a Queen Anne and a brick house with a missing third story roof that’s been…
Wyoming Avenue Between Morgan Ford Road and Bent Avenue
Heading east of the commercial strip along Morgan Ford, there are more of those houses with the living room and bedrooms upstairs and the kitchen downstairs. And many more of those wood frame workers’ cottages. And conversions of multi-family housing into single family. But for the most part, we see in this end of Tower…
Around Portis and Alfred Avenues
To the west of Morgan Ford Road but north of the industrial area and the train tracks there is a pocket of houses, many of which are wood frame and quite old. Again, like yesterday, I suspect that these are exurban houses built when this area was way out west and involved in the Russell…
Workers’ Houses, Fyler Avenue Between Alfred Avenue and Morgan Ford Road
The Mound City Roofing Tile Company sat right on the other side of Fyler from this row of houses, and I strongly suspect that workers from that business lived in these small homes. The street is extra wide here, as well, no doubt to handle delivery wagons and trucks. I’ve watched them over the years,…
Connecticut Street Between Spring Avenue and South Grand Boulevard, Tower Grove South
The last block before Grand has many more two families, as can be seen here.
Connecticut Street Between Gustine and Spring Avenues, Tower Grove South
Moving up to Connecticut Street, there are more houses in the Tower Grove Heights subdivision, with more unique designs. There are also more corner store buildings, as well.
Wyoming Street Between Roger Place and Gustine Place, Tower Grove South
Continuing down Wyoming, we reach some of the Tower Grove Heights subdivision, which was a huge partitioning of land south and east of Tower Grove Park. There were hundreds of these houses built in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. But there were still plenty of four-families mixed in, as well.
Wyoming Street Between Oak Hill Avenue and Roger Place, Tower Grove South
Heading through more of the old Oak Hill area, we see more of the Arts and Crafts houses and two family apartment buildings. There are also some very unique one family houses, as can be seen below.