Another example of a congregation that was founded in the early Twentieth Century with the merging of two older churches in the West End, Eden Immanuel started in 1919 and closed in 1971. It’s a very beautiful church, with an English feeling to the Gothic Revival, and it’s a very interesting expression of the style….
Tag: West End
Page Boulevard, South Side, West End
Page Boulevard continues to be lined with stately houses in the West End neighborhood, after a noticeable gap of parking lots and demolition in the Fountain Park area. The houses are mostly occupied, and many have driveways that get their owners’ cars off the busy thoroughfare. Sadly, there are some vacant lots, as well, between…
Odds and Ends
When I’m out and about, I sometimes snap pictures of interesting buildings that later expand into larger posts, but other times, I can’t figure out what to do with them. These photos are “outtakes;” buildings that are worth publishing but didn’t grow into anything else. Above, this is an old warehouse complex on Texas Avenue…
Minerva Avenue, Hamilton Heights, Revisited Again
I discovered that one of the most compelling blocks in St. Louis, Minerva Avenue between Goodfellow and Hamilton, which I’ve featured back in January of 2015 and then again in September of 2019 was photographed by Richard Lemen back around 1925. You can see what it once looked like, around a century ago below, and…
Hodiamont Tracks at Cates and Clarendon, Revisited in October 2020
I looked at the intersection of Cates and Clarendon where the Hodiamont Streetcar Tracks swept by, leaving a little quarter crescent of land back in April of 2013, and I came back with a historic picture in hand to take a look at the area again. It turns out the building was a drugstore, which…
Cote Brilliante Avenue, Revisited Again
Update: I went back in the early summer of 2021. Great news! As of November of 2020, the house above is still for sale, like it was back in April of 2019, and the monthly payment is only $37. Someone is keeping the grass mowed, at least. I was first shown this street back in…
Former Kingshighway Presbyterian Church
How I missed the majestic former Kingshighway Presbyterian Church in the past is beyond me (maybe I was keeping my eyes on the road in what is a particularly wild stretch of that major artery), but I finally got a chance to photograph what is easily one of the largest and finest examples of Romanesque…
Former St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, Revisited
Update: I revisited the church and school in May of 2022. I went by the old St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church on Page Boulevard at Academy Avenue. It looks much like it did the last time I visited, but I think more of the window tracery (the wood framing) in the tower is missing. The…
Current Affairs This Summer
I went by the Theophile Papin House on the last Saturday of June. It’s being demolished. It’s sad, but honestly, it had been so heavily altered that it wouldn’t really have been feasible or worthwhile to restore it back to its original appearance. It would have been an ersatz structure. During demolition some interesting stone…
Hamilton Heights, The West End, The Greater Ville and Wellston, Late Summer 2019
East of Kingshighway, in and near the western tail of the upside-down U-shaped Greater Ville neighborhood, there is a lot of abandonment, just a couple of blocks off of Martin Luther King Drive. Further west, in the Wellston Loop, there are signs of life, such as this rehabbed storefront, on the south side of the…