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Saint Louis Dream Center, Former Most Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church
Until I began researching all of the Roman Catholic parishes in St. Louis, I had absolutely no idea that Most Holy Rosary existed up in the Penrose neighborhood. It is a beautiful church, with perhaps...
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Former Most Holy Trinity Slovak Catholic Church
The former Most Holy Trinity Slovak Catholic Church on South Ninth Street in Soulard has an interesting story. It began its life as St. Paul’s German Evangelisch Church, and this is even the second...
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St. Crónán’s Roman Catholic Church
St. Cronan’s Roman Catholic Church is not the largest congregation in the Archdiocese, but it is still going strong in the Grove neighborhood, sandwiched on the short blocks in between Manchester and...
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Concordia Cemetery
According to this tombstone-shaped plaque, the roots of Concordia Cemetery go back to some of the earliest burial grounds in St. Louis. Located off of what is now Bates Avenue, this cemetery would...
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Heny Vahlkamp and St. Matthew’s Cemetery
I recently wrote about the fascinating figure of Henry Vahlkamp, who worked for the Lemps from 1870 into the 1920s, making him one of the longest serving member of the brewery, far longer than every...
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Albion Place
North of Whittemore Place is Albion Place, named after the archaic appellation for Britain, was nothing but open land and a sinkhole in 1876; even Park Avenue remained to be developed. An allee of...
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Second Presbyterian Church
Second Presbyterian Church, Northwest Corner of 5th and Walnut, Photograph by Thomas M. Easterly, 1868, Missouri History Museum, N17093 Second Presbyterian Church traces its founding back to 1838, the...
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Maryland Avenue Between North Newstead and Taylor Avenues, North Side
Crossing over North Newstead Avenue, mature trees block the view of the stately institutional building that stands on the northwest corner. If you traveled back in time over a century, the view would...
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, Winter 2021
I took a look around Bellefontaine Cemetery in early January, when the winter had set in, leaving the grounds in their stark but beautiful appearance for the season. I went back the Saturday in...
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Tenth Street Mall, LaSalle Park, Frenchtown
What we now call LaSalle Park, part of what I call the greater Frenchtown neighborhood, was originally just part of the greater urban fabric of what we now celebrate as historic Soulard. (Note that...
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Revisiting Carondelet: Virginia Avenue Between Loughborough Avenue and Blow...
Exterior View of Blow School, 1866, Missouri History Museum, P0900-40928-01-PR It’s interesting to see how a similar pattern of development occurs in different parts of the city. As I showed recently...
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St. Augustine’s in the Snow, Mid February 2021
Things are proceeding well with the rehabbing of St. Augustine’s, I’ve been told; it even held up well under the stress of the recent severe cold weather. Thing are looking up.
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Christ’s Southern Mission Baptist Church, Former Eden Immanuel Evangelisch...
Another example of a congregation that was founded in the early Twentieth Century with the merging of two older churches in the West End, Eden Immanuel started in 1919 and closed in 1971. It’s a very...
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St. John’s United Church of Christ, Mehlville
I always figured St. John Church Road, just off Lindbergh Boulevard in the Mehlville area went to a church, and I finally went up and investigated. A short drive up the road, and there’s this nice...
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Twelfth Street Between Victor and Barton Streets
The west side of Twelfth Street north of Victor to Barton Street is an interesting mix of Second Empire storefronts and apartment buildings, with one later house thrown in. The corner storefront...
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New Melle, St. Charles County
Out along the Missouri River Valley, in the area where Gottfried Duden encouraged Germans to settle, is the town of New Melle. One of the most prominent landmarks in town is the church of St. Paul’s...
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Former Marthasville Seminary and Emmaus Homes, Winter 2016
We went out to visit the old Emmaus Homes in the winter of 2016. It was desolate, and other than a growling dog that charged us, we saw no one. It was being operated as a disability support home at...
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Augusta in Transition: Walnut Street Between Public and Lower Streets
Proceeding east on Walnut Street past Public Street, we came upon the same church I photographed last year. I’m starting to suspect that the tower and sanctuary were built separately. There are two...
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Former Immanuel Lutheran Church, Wentzville
The former Immanuel Lutheran Church on Pearce Boulevard is a fantastic example of the Carpenter Gothic, which I wrote about several years ago at St. Louis Magazine. The congregation was founded by a...
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Outtakes, Spring 2021
They’re cleaning up the ruins of the John Loler House relatively quickly, though I was a little worried to see workers standing on the wood floors now loaded up with the debris of bricks and limestone...
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