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The Mysterious Long Lost Phillip Gibson Stone House
Leighton Rutledge, Front of a Stone Home on Grand Avenue and Market Street, c. 1949, Missouri History Museum, P0051-03562. Every so often I come across something completely strange and mysterious, and...
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Crumbling Highrise Housing
We have a serious problem in this city with the growing obsolescence of buildings built in the mid-Twentieth Century urban renewal building boom. Built on blocks that once made up the former Mill...
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A Collapse, Midtown
“Hey, I wonder how that one house is doing,” I thought to myself recently while driving down North Compton Avenue. I soon found out: Not very well at all!
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New Target Opens
The new Target is open! I’m not complaining; there is a dearth of shopping east of Grand and it is much needed. But make sure you check your receipt for the added taxes you’re subsidizing to pay for...
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Washington Boulevard Between North Compton and Garrison Avenues
Compton, Richard J, and Camille N Dry. Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a topographical survey drawn in perspective A.D. St. Louis, Compton & co, 1876. Map....
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Washington Boulevard Between Garrison Avenue and Beaumont Street
Moving past this building above which has a bit of some panache, we reach the Grand Wig House, 2911, which is a bit of an institution in St. Louis. It was a cork insulation company at one point, as...
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New Masonic Temple, Redeveloped
I never thought I’d see it, but the New Masonic Temple on Lindell has been successfully redeveloped into apartments, known as the B on Lindell. Not surprisingly, due to its massive size, its interior...
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Locust Street Between Former North Channing and Cardinal Avenues
Compton, Richard J, and Camille N Dry. Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a topographical survey drawn in perspective A.D. St. Louis, Compton & co, 1876. Map....
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Locust Street Between Cardinal and Huntley Avenues
Dorrill Studio, Exterior view of a commercial building housing several businesses, Locust Street and North Cardinal Avenue. c. 1955, Missouri History Museum, P0243-12551-01-8a Moving east, there are...
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Locust Street Between Huntley and North Jefferson Avenues
Residence of Homer Hall 2810-12 Locust Street, 1894, Missouri History Museum, N38989 Moving east of T.E. Huntley Avenue, the former Ewing Avenue, we see some demolished Italianate rowhouses with late...
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