The long-suffering College Hill neighborhood hasn’t been in the news much, but it was wracked with violence a while back.
There is a lot of abandonment, and then you come across a duplex like the one above, built in the 1960s, but now under renovation after a fire, perhaps.
A very rare wood-frame, half flounder house hides in the thick underbrush, above.
Down in the College Hill Valley, as I call it, there are still some buildings still occupied, such as this storefront church above.
And then there is this large pocket of wood frame alley houses, still hanging on.
The old Roman Catholic Church is stylistically Romanesque, but its massing and steeple form is more Gothic, a common mix in St. Louis.
