Update: This was the parking lot across from my house junior and senior years of college. There were houses there until a few years before I arrived at Truman State in August of 1996.
Tag: Urban Prairie
Wright Street: Almost Completely Gone
The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. The house below was torn down shortly after I photographed it. I probably shouldn’t have gone back to the 1900 block of Wright, because what I saw there was even more depressing than when I visited two months ago. What…
A Pasture?
Update: Cleared for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. This the infamous section of St. Louis Place where there is literally nothing left of the city that once existed here. Easily thousands of people once lived in the confines…
“Urban Prairie”
Update: The original article link is dead, so here’s another one on the same subject. A great article on the demise of one block in Detroit.