Heading down Marshall Avenue south of Manchester Road past some churches we’ve looked at before, we reach Vine Avenue, a part of the Maplewood Subdivision.
It’s only a few blocks away from the old Maplewood train station on the Union Pacific Railroad, and surely would have provided an easy commute to downtown St. Louis.
There does not seem to be any trace of the station left along McCausland Avenue. The houses are typical of a streetcar or railroad suburb in the late Nineteenth Century.
But it’s curious that all of the houses are white nowadays! They would have originally been all sorts of bright colors.
I remember living on Big Bend 7th grade
not far from Maple Wood. There was a “Katz” Store .
The house was a 3 story pale grey Stucco , with a built in Lilly Pond in back where ducks would come from somewhere swimming. It was like a magic dream…
One color is cheaper to paint than multi colored.