Two Founders Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and Louis Blanchette, two minor yet notable figures in American history, spent the end of their lives as residents of St. Charles, Missouri. […]
On July 4th of this year I was lucky to be able to walk to Art Hill from a friend’s Central West End apartment. The east side of Forest Park […]
The Confederate Memorial in Forest Park has been the target of controversy in recent months. I first learned of the Confederate Memorial in 2012 when I read about it in […]
Welcome to St. Louis This is a page from a wonderful little book called Problems of St. Louis, Being a Description, From the City Planning Standpoint, of Past and Present […]
A St. Louisan Describes His Sensations in an Opium Joint He Discovered in the Fashionable West End “It is easy to find an opium join [sic] in St. Louis. My friend […]
The night was clear and the moon was yellow, and the leaves came tumbling down… 911 North Tucker Boulevard My post today starts with a house – the row house […]
The Neighborhood Visitation Park is a very small neighborhood of less than a thousand persons on the North Side of the City of St. Louis. It takes its name from the […]
The Neighborhood Marine Villa, which has been known by that name only since 1969, is a South St. Louis neighborhood of approximately 2700 persons bordered by Cherokee Street to the north, […]
