Mercantile Bank and the Ghost of the Ambassador
A New Home for Mercantile Bank In 1973 Mercantile Bank had 1500 employees scattered among 12 buildings around downtown St. Louis. The company thought that consolidating operations into one building […]
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Before and After in McKinley Heights
A series of loud banging sounds woke me up. I thought it was the trash truck. When I go to work I usually drive the same way out of my […]
The Death of Tito
Thirty-six years ago today on May 4, 1980, Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia, died due to gangrene, a complication of circulatory problems in his legs. He had served as […]
Monday Meditation: 1896 St. Louis Streetcar Map
This is a map showing the streetcar routes that existed in St. Louis in 1896. It’s pretty. It’s interesting to contemplate the vitality and upward trajectory that this map represents, […]
Allen Avenue
I took these photos last year and since then they have just been sitting around inside my computer. This is every building on Allen Avenue in McKinley Heights. McKinley Heights […]
Welcome to St. Louis!
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 […]
911 North Tucker Boulevard and the Story of Stacker Lee
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 Vanished Visitation Academy of Visitation Park
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 […]
Marine Villa’s Lost Marine Hospital
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, […]
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