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Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, Hebert Street Between North Fourteenth and...
I could have sworn I’d posted all of these buildings before, but apparently not. The house above was actually originally a school, sitting on the northeast corner of the intersection of Fourteenth and...
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Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, North Twentieth Street Between Hebert and...
Passing White Castle, and what is now the vacant lot where this house once stood, we come across this grand house. It turns out this house was at one point the home of Fifth Ward Alderman Louis Ford....
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Old North, Revisited Winter 2022, Palm Street Between Knapp and North...
Palm Street always elicits feelings of the tropics, yet that is not what I feel when I look at my pictures, which were frequently taken in the winter, but also in warmer, sunny weather. I’ve...
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St. Louis Place from North Florissant Avenue
Looking across North Florissant Avenue into the St. Louis Place neighborhood, we see the apse of the old St. Liborius, which we probably shouldn’t be able to do if it weren’t for the demolition of so...
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Malt Kilns, Lemp Brewery
The historic malt kilns at the Lemp Brewery have been stabilized after the unfortunate collapse of the western third (spare me your armchair engineering expertise–unless you have an actual B.S. or...
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The Tuileries: A Lost Palace in Paris and Its Influence on St. Louis...
Baldus, Edouard, photographer. Paris. Tuileries / E. Baldus. Paris France, None. [Between 1851 and 1870] Photograph. You’ve probably never heard of the Tuileries Palace, but it’s actually one of the...
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Foundations of the Louvre
Like St. Louis, Paris is multi-layered. One of the sights that I was not going to miss out on are the original foundations of the Louvre fortress, which are now viewable after being buried for...
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Notre Dame of Paris, Under Reconstruction and the Cluny Museum
No trip to Paris would be complete without a visit to Notre Dame, which simply means “Our Lady” in French, and as such, there are perhaps thousands of churches in the Francophone world with that name....
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Beck and Corbitt Iron Company, In Ruins
As I watched footage of the last two sections of the old Beck and Corbitt Iron Company building burn to the ground on Thursday, I realized it was a good thing I managed to get down and photograph it...
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Redevelopment Continuing, Lafayette Square
Back in May of this year, I checked in on the massive new development transforming the long moribund northwest side of the Lafayette Square neighborhood. I think most people know the story: the...
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Penrose Street Between Blair Avenue and North 11th Street, Hyde Park
I ended up on Penrose Street in Hyde Park recently east of Blair Avenue, which is blocked off with Schoemehl Pots. On the east, Interstate 70 cuts the street off from North Broadway, with which it had...
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Northland Avenue, The Western Greater Ville
Moving a little to the southwest, I took a look at the houses on Northland Avenue between Euclid and Marcus avenues. I definitely see the irony of how just a couple of miles north on Euclid Avenue,...
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German Singing Society, Destroyed by Fire
On the same tragic night St. Louis lost Bob Kramer, the city also saw the destruction of the Old North Sängerbund, a German singing society located at the southwest corner of North 14th and Howard...
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A Collapse and the Near North Riverfront
Well, for the second time in a couple of weeks a building just north of downtown was destroyed that I didn’t have any pictures of (the first was this one). I suppose I always took the building for...
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Pennsylvania Avenue Between Catalan and Marceau Streets, Carondelet
Polishing off the full length of Pennsylvania Avenue in Carondelet, which I did in two earlier spurts earlier this winter here and here, we now start almost at the River des Peres, at Catalan Street....
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A Foreboding Demolition, Gravois Park
3633 South Compton Avenue, June 14, 2023 I was shocked to discover a demolition occurring on the 3600 block of South Compton Avenue in the Gravois Park neighborhood. While the area is undergoing wild...
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Family Farm, Late June 2023
Two days after I posted these photos on March 29 of the family farm, a tornado struck, destroying several structures and trees. Thankfully, the historic horse barn, built in the late 1800s, survived...
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Fire at the Former St. Liborius, SK8 Liborius
The unthinkable happened late on the night of June 28. The former St. Liborius Roman Catholic Church, which had been closed in 1992 by the Archdiocese, became SK8 Liborius approximately ten years ago....
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Wells-Goodfellow, Early Summer 2023, Part One
Crossing over MLK, I headed to one of the more interesting streets in Wells-Goodfellow, the 5600 block of Labadie. After passing by the western end of the block, which is still somewhat inhabited, we...
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Fort Atkinson, Iowa
At the same time Adam Lemp was founding his brewery in St. Louis, the US government was busy in Iowa removing Native Americans from their homelands and forcing them to live in new territory. Fort...
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