Now that we’ve looked at some of North St. Louis, let’s head south of Delmar and check up on how things are doing on the long blocks north of Portland Place and Westmoreland Place, which was the Forest Park Addition.

These subdivisions were laid out in the 1890s, a couple of years after the aforementioned private streets, and the lots are smaller.

But the architecture is no less elaborate. There are many examples of what I will admit to being Renaissance Revival houses, though the term is used far too often in American architecture for buildings that look nothing like that early modern period’s built environment.

In many ways, the houses on Westminster Place are sort of “mini” versions of the houses in the more exclusive Forest Park Addition.

While most of the houses appear to be from the first decade of the Twentieth Century, there is the house below that is most likely from the 1890s.

Frequently, the houses have two floors with equally proportioned windows with slightly smaller windows on the third floor, emulating the appearance of palazzi in Italy.