I've begun to spot the towers of the new Mississippi Bridge all over town, whether at the corner of Washington and 14th, or in the photo above, as I was driving eastbound down Natural Bridge Avenue south of Fairgrounds Park.The two towers are proceedin... »
We are in the final stretch of the process of securing historic district status for most of the O’Fallon neighborhood. By early May, Preservation Research Office will have submitted two National Register of Historic Places nominations that cover almost... »
The Ville and Greater Ville, which I've compressed into just simply The Ville, was once the center of the African-American middle class in St. Louis.I went back to the area last weekend to look around and check up on things; mostly nothing was differen... »
by Michael R. Allen Out of sight, out of mind? Not brick theft. Brick thieves continue to strike abandoned buildings in north city, although the territory of operation has shifted westward. Two years ago, brick theft was prevalent in JeffVanderLou … Co... »
by Lynn Josse and Michael R. Allen Creating National register of Historic Places historic district designations often is straightforward work — a consultant delineates the boundary of an eligible area dense with urban building stock. Then there are dep... »
by Michael R. Allen The St. Louis Development Corporation has proposed initiating a $100,000 two-year option on the 33-acre Pruitt-Igoe site for Paul J. McKee, Jr.’s Northside Regeneration LLC. During that time, the ddeveloper would have exclusive righ... »
North of Delmar, but west of Jefferson is a very important part of St. Louis's architectural history.Why? Because it represents an era of St. Louis history that was almost entirely demolished in the first half of the Twentieth Century, first by the com... »
