I thought I would check up on how the former St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church was doing six months after the severe fire that struck in the depths of winter. The answer: not very good. There has been little change other than the dramatic growth of plants, trees and other vegetation up the sides of…
Tag: West End
Harlan Court, The Long Apartment Buildings
Harlan Court has always been that apartment complex that pops up in the news every five years or so for the wrong reasons. It’s inexcusable that there are still so many buildings owned by out-of-state slumlords who hold on to once august addresses. (I checked and there was a Citizens’ Service Bureau complaint for a…
Savoy Court
You might have missed Savoy Court while watching for errant driers at the intersection of Delmar and Union boulevards, but if you look closely at the northwest corner, you’ll see a modern entrance to what is an interesting little street laid out in 1909. What was originally six apartment buildings, starting this one at the…
Enright Avenue Between Belt and Arlington Avenues
While the beautiful houses of the Central West End are well known, I feel like I need to come back again and again to north of Delmar, in this case to the Visitation Park neighborhood, to show how stately homes are here, as well. There are houses such as the one below that are fairly…
Page Boulevard Between Academy Avenue and Kingshighway, Part Two
Looking at the eastern half of the block of Page Boulevard just to the west of Kingshighway, we see more congestion and more vacant houses and lots. Again, we see houses built in tracts, such as the two homes below. I’ve looked at more of Page Boulevard east of Kingshighway in these posts from March…
Page Boulevard Between Academy Avenue and Kingshighway, Part One
We’ll split the last block to the west before Kingshighway into two parts, separated by a long swath of vacant land. There are also, sadly, a lot of vacant houses in this cluster. The houses are also older, and there are some neat, well maintained homes such as the one below. The individual houses might…
Page Boulevard Between Clarendon and Academy Avenues
Clarendon Avenue actually only intersects Page Boulevard to the south in a T-bone, so the block is continuous on the north side of the street. We see something new: four-family apartment buildings. We also see vacant lots, as well, unfortunately. But there are many houses still occupied. What is interesting to see how the houses…
Page Boulevard Between Union Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue
Jumping ahead to the east a bit, we cross over Union Boulevard, looking to the north to a very nice but abandoned six family apartment building to the north. Again, we see more tract houses and two-families built before 1909. But I really love the house above with the big rounded Romanesque arch on the…
Page Boulevard Between Hamilton Avenue and Laurel Street
I’ve been fascinated by Page Boulevard being almost completely residential along its whole stretch inside city limits (it becomes heavily commercial–particularly past I-170–outside the city limits). But what is interesting, unlike in small towns, where the mansions of the most prominent citizens line the major streets out to the city limits, Page Boulevard is lined…
Maple Avenue Between Maple Place and Hamilton Avenue
Continuing on to the east on Maple Avenue past Maple Place in the West End, we see more of the typical housing stock for the neighborhood. Many houses are three story, such as the one in the upper right, which is only seen in this area north of Delmar. I’ve always liked this apartment building…