I’ll have to admit when I got home and actually looked at the photographs I had taken of this street, I was very disheartened. I have photographed the twin apartment buildings above twice, once back in May of 2012 (badly) and again in August of 2015. I also photographed these two just really beautiful twins…
Tag: Wells-Goodfellow
Wabada Avenue Between Arlington Avenue and Union Boulevard
Leaving behind Arlington Avenue, we head east on Wabada Avenue, on a section that we have not looked at before. While the street traverses much of the North Side, this section is quiet.
Arlington Avenue, Wells-Goodfellow
I’ve looked at Arlington Avenue in Wells-Goodfellow further to the north in these two posts from March of 2017 and July of 2023, but this time I started at Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. and went north. There’s a wide variety of housing styles, from four-family flats… …to in-fill that looks like it was damaged…
3401 Union Boulevard
Occasionally I wonder to myself why I bother doing this website, and then I’m just wandering down a random street such as Union Boulevard, and I come upon a building I’ve probably driven by a dozen times but this time I finally notice, and I remember, this is why I do all this work. In…
3025-27 Union Boulevard
Completed in early 1927, the building at 3025-27 Union Boulevard featured storefronts on the first floor and apartments above. Around the corner on Greer was a complementary apartment building which sadly have been demolished. The apartments were four and five rooms each. The stores were advertised as excellent for “live wire.” Does anyone know what…
Fire, Former DePaul Hospital
There was a fire at the old DePaul Hospital/closed Northview Village on December 2, and the Fire Department described the damage as “severe.” This is a major development, as right after the failed nursing home closed, security seemed to be fairly tight, as at least one man was arrested for burglary within a week or…
Lotus Avenue from Union Boulevard to Kingshighway
Crossing over Union Boulevard, we switch over to Lotus Avenue, which is one way to the east in the Kingsway West neighborhood. Dominated by the former DePaul Hospital, the area is dominated by extremely long blocks that stretch all the way from Union to Kingshighway, such as Wabada Avenue, one block to the north, which…
Cote Brilliante Avenue from Goodfellow Boulevard to Union Boulevard
Continuing through Wells-Goodfellow, we pass by Stowe School, which closed in 2009 and is now for sale for $450,000. Built in 1967, I call this design, which appear throughout the northwest side, the last generation of schools before the dramatic decline in student population in the city. After the schoolyard there is this lone, abandoned…
Cote Brilliante Avenue from Hodiamont Avenue to Goodfellow Boulevard
The St. Louis architecture, preservation and ADA rights community lost a dear friend last year by the name of Steve Patterson, who ran a blog, UrbanReviewSTL, for almost twenty years, and one thing Steve always did every year on Dr. Martin Luther King Day was to walk or eventually ride his motorized wheelchair the full…
Dr. Martin Luther King Drive From Union Boulevard to Hodiamont Avenue
We jump to Union Boulevard on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive (Wohl Community Center is one place we went by) and start to see some more interesting buildings along the former Easton Avenue. These one story commercial buildings look largely abandoned. We now arrive in the Wellston Loop, which I have looked at before back…