Update: The house was later completely demolished; I went back in 2013 to look at the vacant streetscape. See it a little while before here. This is what it looked like before being attacked by brick thieves. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018.
The 1900 block of Wright is now probably days away from being completely gone.
It has since gotten worse–the bit of brick between that last window on the right hand side, 2nd floor and the door adjacent to it has fallen. The mansard on the right hand looks like it’s been italicized, it’s so distorted.I wasn’t too worried about standing under this building before, but now….