Update: I went back in the winter of 2022. I checked in on Laflin Street, which once had far more houses, including two more to the north of the one above. You can see them in this post from September of 2017 (third photo down). A year later, it became a dumping ground for a…
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Mullanphy Hospital
Recently I was looking for another hospital at the Missouri History Museum when I spotted the photo below, labeled the Mullanphy Hospital. I thought for certain it was mislabeled, and captured a pre-cupola image of the St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center on Arsenal Street. I was wrong–it is in fact a hospital that once sat…
Beaumont High School, Revisited
I looked at Beaumont High School back in October of 2013 when I was looking at other Natural Bridge Avenue institutions. I took more photos this time in the early morning sun of the late summer.
Fifth Missionary Baptist Church, Former Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist
I looked at Fifth Missionary Baptist way back in October of 2013 on a cloudy day, and I went back on a sunny Saturday morning to take another look. As should be obvious, this is the former Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, which as we saw just last week, continues the Beaux-Arts style that its…
Two Buildings Along North Grand Boulevard
The Speedwa School was a small business school that taught bookkeeping and accounting for both men and women, publishing its own books. Recently, the building has been the home of a couple of clubs on the first floor. Next door is a chop suey restaurant that has been in the neighborhood for years. The next…
Elliott and Leffingwell Avenues, JeffVanderLou, Late Summer 2021, Part Two
Continuing south on Leffingwell Avenue, retracing my steps from my visit in May of 2020, I saw more green overgrowth and abandonment. The house on the left is actually a half-flounder, with a hipped roof. Its front façade was altered sometime in the mid-Twentieth Century. Down on the northeast corner, I went by the house…
Elliott and Leffingwell Avenues, JeffVanderLou, Late Summer 2021, Part One
Back in May of 2020, I went and documented the houses to the west of the new NGA in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood, one of the most heavily damaged in the city. But I have met many proud, hardworking people in this community, and the result of decades of bad policy needs to be shown. So…
St. Louis Avenue, JeffVanderLou, Late May, 2021
I never thought I’d see this day, but all the buildings that were vacant and/or hit by bricktheft have been demolished east of Glasgow Avenue. There were dozens of buildings in this stretch a decade ago, and they’re all gone now. The last ones were still here less than a year ago. We’ll see when…
Columbia Elementary School
Due to the recent round of school closings that saw Dunbar on the other end of the neighborhood closed, Columbia Elementary School stayed open. Opened in 1929, this Ittner/Milligan school replaced an earlier building that was destroyed by a tornado. Like many of the schools on the Northside, it replicates the architecture of northern Europe….
Sts. Teresa and Bridget Roman Catholic Church
St. Teresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church dates back to the population explosion and development of the Yeatman estate after the Civil War in 1866. The present church dates from 1900, and as usual, defies the normal classification of architectural styles. The church, particularly the façade, reminds me of the Roman Baroque, but there are…