Tamm Avenue Between Wade and Lloyd Avenues

Continuing south past St. James the Greater, we can see the original church below, which I suspect was one of those standard rural school-sanctuary combos we see throughout the Archdiocese. And I think we see the storefront above on the right below in the historic photo down the hill from the church.

Richard W. Lemen, View north on Tamm Ave. near Wade Ave. in the Dogtown neighborhood of west St. Louis City. The church steeple is the original St. James the Greater Catholic Church at 1360 Tamm Ave. The brick building on the far right is 1420 Tamm Ave. c. 1925. Lemen Streets and Sewers Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts, St. Louis Public Library, Lemen 2739.

There are many two-family flats along this section of Tamm Avenue.

And some very unique apartment buildings where it looks like there is a single entrance, and two up and two down.

There’s this style of four-family, which is a little less common, where there are two completely separate porches.

Then there is this single family house from the Nineteenth Century.

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