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…
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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…
The Closure of Nursing Homes
The last decade or so has been rough on nursing homes in St. Louis. While readers at first might find the link tenuous to history, they must be reminded that many are in historic buildings, and likewise, neighborhoods are kept healthy when members of society are able to “age in place,” meaning they do not…
Northview Village, Former DePaul Hospital, December 2023
Update: Heavily damaged by fire on December 2, 2024. I think most people have heard the terrible news of the Northview Village Nursing Home closing unexpectedly, forcing the removal of residents and the laying off of employees. The front door is now sealed, a police camera wagon is installed, and of this writing, at least…
Wells-Goodfellow, Early Summer 2023, Part Two
Wow, things sure have changed north of the closed Gundlach School on Arlington Avenue. As part of Project Clear, MSD has been demolishing portions of the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood, replacing the cleared sites with retention basins. Looking at satellite images, it looks like this built several years ago, and MSD is reworking the basin. It’s a…
Wells-Goodfellow, Early Summer 2023, Part One
Crossing over MLK, I headed to one of the more interesting streets in Wells-Goodfellow, the 5600 block of Labadie. After passing by the western end of the block, which is still somewhat inhabited, we get to those four-family apartment buildings, which have always fascinated me, but even more so now that I recently discovered a…
The Streets Around Norwood Square
One of the most interesting neighborhoods in St. Louis is Norwood Square, which I first looked at way back in August of 2009. It sits on the site of an old quarry, which is settling badly (I tried to figure out what kind of quarry it was, but it does not show up on this…
Wells-Goodfellow, Post-Federal Conviction
Former alderman Jeffrey Boyd went off to federal prison a week ago today, and I thought I would go check up on the heart of his former ward, which is the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood. It’s a huge neighborhood, and I discovered this church that I had never seen before at the northeast corner of Hodiamont and…