We next turned into the residential streets to the north of the commercial strip along Big Bend in the Old Orchard area. As was typical of suburban neighborhood movements in the late Nineteenth Century, and as can be seen in Julius Pitzman’s Clifton Heights and Compton Heights additions, there is a move away from rigid…
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Big Bend Boulevard, Old Orchard, Webster Groves
Let’s head two Frisco Railroad stops to the northeast and get off our imaginary train and get off at the Old Orchard stop. Sadly, the station is lost, but it was located at the dead end of Old Orchard Avenue, at the railroad tracks, obviously. Old Orchard, not surprisingly, took its name from the large…
Frisco Railroad Station, South Webster, Revisited
Way back in March of 2011 I took one really bad photograph of the Frisco Railroad Station that once served the South Webster section of Webster Groves, so I thought it was time to come back and revisit it as well as the area. The South Webster station was one of three Frisco lines stops…
Bristol Elementary School, Webster Groves
I couldn’t find a cornerstone for the Bristol School in Webster Groves, and there might be a very good reason, and a very fascinating one at that. Most likely the work of William Ittner, it was built in stages, just like many of his schools were designed to be. But at this school which was…
Webster Groves Presbyterian Church
I was in Webster Groves recently in the evening and parked across the street from the Webster Groves Presbyterian Church, with roots going back to 1865. This building dates from 1924 and was an expansion from earlier structures. I photographed the tracery in the rose window way back in May of 2013. That church is…
Mary, Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church
While located just across the border in Webster Groves, the Roman Catholic church of Mary, Queen of Peace is often associated with the small suburb of Glendale. The current church was built in 1955 and features windows by Emil Frei & Associates. But I am interested in the sculptures in the high altar. I showed…
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…
Marshall Place and the Former Webster College
Platted early in the history of Webster Groves and served by the nearby train station, houses on Marshall Place date from 1860 to 1910, a span of fifty years. It was platted by John Marshall in 1860, and the first couple of houses are more Colonial Revival. But clearly one of the oldest houses is…
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…