I thought I would look at Tennessee Avenue in the Gravois Park neighborhood, starting at Chippewa Street, heading north. Skipping by some in-fill and vacant lots, we arrive at the southwest corner of Winnebago, where there is this church.
While the neighborhood was platted out early in the St. Louis Commons, most the housing stock was not built until the turn of the Twentieth Century.
There is even in-fill from the Twenty-First Century.
There is abandonment, and rampant land speculation.
But it’s such a beautiful neighborhood, and I hope the economics change so first-time homebuyers can move into these homes.
Turning around, we head back south looking at the east side of the street.
I find it interesting when there is a one story house sandwiched between a majority of two story houses.
We then cross over Miami Street.
People went crazy with awnings on this stretch.
