As can be seen clearly labeled on the map above, the town of Bel-Nor began as a real estate development named the Country Club Addition of Normandy Park. In fact, the Normandie Golf Club, which sits to the south of the residential component of the town, lies within its city limits. The old Incarnate Word…
Tag: Tudor Revival
Normandy, Part Three
On the west side of Florissant Road, opposite St. Vincent Children’s Services, which is again another land donation of the Lucas-Hunt family, we have a row of houses from the 1920s and 30s. There is a broad mix of houses on what is the eastern edge of the Normandy Heights addition, with almost Arts and…
Former St. Engelbert’s Campus
One of the more popular former Catholic parishes that I’ve posted about before is the former St. Engelbert’s on Shreve Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. It might also win the informal award of “Largest Catholic church building most people have never heard of in St. Louis,” as well. It’s huge. I was poking around on…
Dr. Martin Luther King Drive From North Jefferson Avenue to Prairie Avenue
As I was heading towards Dr. Martin Luther King Dr., I glanced to my left while on North Jefferson Avenue and noticed the back portion of a building on Olive Street. No word on what happened. I turned onto MLK Dr. and proceeded west. This first portion is the former Franklin Avenue, and only later…
Algonquin Place Over to West Jackson Road
Taking its name from the historic golf club across West Lockwood Avenue, Algonquin Place possesses a host of houses from the 1910s and 20s. Not surprisingly, there are many Tudor Revival homes. There are also larger houses that I might describe as upper class examples of the Arts and Crafts style with their use of…
East of North Street, Peoria, Part Two
Continuing around on Columbia Terrace in Peoria, there are these houses from the early Twentieth Century. There is also this impressive Tudor Revival house around on Randolph Avenue. But then there are some amazing Queen Anne houses, with elaborate paint schemes, such as the one below. There is this unique house below in green stone.
East of North Street, Peoria, Part One
I’d looked at some of the streets northeast of Main Street in Peoria before, but this time I went up North Avenue. North Avenue heads to the north just about opposite of High Street, which I’ve looked at twice before, once in September of 2013 and 2019. These houses date from the early Twentieth Century,…
Blackmer Place, Webster Groves
Blackmer Place was clearly the former estate of the house we’ll see in a second. It was also subdivided in the 1910s or 20s, judging from the housing styles of the elegant homes built on the street. The houses range from the Tudor Revival to the more common Colonial Revival. We now get to the…
Monday Club and Other Historic Houses, Webster Groves
I thought it was time to get back to Webster Groves, considering that the last post I made on the city was in May of 2013(!) and there are a grand total of nine for the historic suburb. We’ll start by looking at the Monday Club at 37 S. Maple Avenue, which was built around…
Pershing Avenue West of Forest Park Parkway
When you’re caught up in the traffic flying down Forest Park Parkway, you might not have ever really noticed that Pershing Avenue peals off to the right at the bend as it sweeps off towards downtown Clayton. This is in fact University City right here; it dips down and blocks Clayton from reaching over and…