Green Board-Ups, JeffVanderLou, Part One
My friend Paul Hohman, a well known architect who specializes in renovations of historic buildings helped get Missouri Preservation to list the “JeffVanderLou Green Board Buildings” as one of their...
View ArticleFormer Friedens German Evangelical Church, In Ruins
Well, I guess there’s not much to say but St. Louis has lost another beautiful church to fire, most likely set by squatters trying to keep warm on one of the coldest nights of the winter so far. In...
View ArticleTragic Fire, Quinn AME Chapel
Tragic, terrible news arrived on February 23, when fire severely damaged the historic Quinn AME Chapel in Carondelet. I looked at the African American church back in December of 2020. As others have...
View ArticleThe Staircase and the Swimming Pool
It was warming up so we went back out in the area that was cleared for the Weldon Spring Munitions Plant during World War II in St. Charles County. After exploring this staircase, we came across this...
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