What is interesting, however, in this incredibly dense neighborhood of apartment buildings, is how there are a scattering of single family houses thrown in here and there in the part of Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard. Take, for example, these two bungalows above that I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else in the city,…
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Dutchtown West of Grand Boulevard, Part Four
Continuing on in our look at two family flats in Dutchtown west of South Grand Boulevard, we see more examples that have a front parapet wall. And if you look at the examples above, you can see more of those mass-produced glazed terracotta decorative elements that appear in the larger multi-unit buildings. But there are…
Botanical Avenue from South Spring Avenue to South Grand Boulevard
Crossing South Spring Avenue, we reach the final block in our survey of Botanical Avenue in the Shaw neighborhood. The first house on the corner is an impressive example of what I might call almost Tudor Revival or Jacobethan in style. Interestingly, it also appears to have been originally built as a two-family flat. The…
Botanical Avenue from Thurman Avenue to Lawrence Street
Passing by Thurman Avenue, four-family flats dominated the streetscape of Botanical Avenue in this section of the Shaw neighborhood. But it is bracketed with this two-family right on the corner, above. Many of the two-families are just simply cut in half versions of the four-families, as well, showing that developers reused designs quickly as they…
Tower Grove Avenue Between Magnolia and Botanical Avenues
We walk back to Tower Grove Avenue and work our way north, glancing back to the south into Tower Grove Park at the Superintendent’s house, which I looked at all the way back in May of 2008. Through the trees we can see the Tudor Revival roofline of the current president’s house of the Missouri…
Magnolia Avenue from Thurman Avenue to Klemm Street, Part Two, and Hortus Court
After another not terribly inspired 1950s or 60s long apartment building, we get to Hortus Court, a fascinating and unique development in St. Louis. Platted in 1921, Hortus Court is a row of Dutch Colonial houses arranged around a walkway perpendicular to Magnolia Avenue, creating a quaint, private community of homes facing each other across…
Magnolia Avenue from Lawrence Street to Thurman Avenue, Part Two
Magnolia Place seems to have been platted around 1913 to 1916, which would make sense considering the style of the houses. Note the art glass in the lunette of the windows above. Some of the bungalows also seem to show some influence of Spanish Revival architecture, as well, such as in the house above. Side…
Grantwood Village
In the late 1920s, the R. Mederacke Realty and Investment Company began the development of what was originally known as Grantwood Terrace, just to the east of Grant’s Farm on Gravois Road. Lots were at least 100 feet wide and ranged from 240 to 350 feet deep. Architectural styles were typical of the time period…
St. Louis Hills, November 2024
I was in St. Louis Hills so I thought I would see if I could find as many Spanish Revival houses as possible. I ran out of ones to find after awhile. The house above was probably not painted white originally. The houses and apartment buildings of St. Louis Hills represent an interesting transition from…
Greendale
Heading up Normandy Avenue, I first glanced over at the historic Normandie Golf Club and noticed earth being moved around. Had it finally been purchased and subdivided for houses, as had been threatened so many times? No, in fact it is being renovated according to designs by Jack Nicklaus. But I was turning my attention…