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Downtown San Antonio, Texas
There’s more to San Antonio than the Spanish heritage, though I personally think that period of time is the most poignant. San Antonio ironically was a relatively small city for most of its history,...
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Delmar Between Union and DeBaliviere, Part 3
Many of the buildings along Delmar were clearly built in pairs or in triplets. They create a pleasant, undulating streetscape that is fun to walk along. I don’t think, after closer inspection, that...
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Other Buildings at the Busch Estate
There are other buildings included in the Busch Estate tour that I didn’t talk about in my recent St. Louis Magazine article on the mansion. I forgot to take a picture of the pool house, but the...
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Washington Terrace Gates, Revisited
We were walking by the Washington Terrace gates again, so I snapped some new photos. It’s still an impressive, Norman Revival example of private street entrance gates.
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Near North Side Church
What a strange church; the back is clearly very old, but there’s a more recent Gothic Revival facade added on. But the towers were never completed.
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St. Agatha’s
St. Agatha’s Parish is a great example of how a Roman Catholic church in St. Louis didn’t just serve the community for a couple of hours on Sunday morning. It was a campus, buzzing with activity all...
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, Late November 2014, Part 2
I love out the various mausolea interact with each other, sneaking into each others’ shots, hiding partially behind trees or hillocks. This monument stood out to me, with an almost Baroque decorative...
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Church Shell, Grand Center
This relatively small church for the once upscale residential community in Grand Center now serves as an art space, buttressed for safety but left as a shell.
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Telephone Building, Grand Center
I seem to remember that this building was originally telephone building or something. It seems to have received a vertical addition at some point, as the upper floors are clearly much newer than the...
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Rock Alva, the Griesedieck Estate
I have become fascinated with the Griesedieck family, the “lost” brewing family of St. Louis. Everyon’e heard of the Busches and Lemps, but for much of the Twentieth Century, the three branches of the...
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“New” St. Augustine’s, Minerva and Hamilton Avenues
St. Barbara’s, opened in 1893, and closed in 1992, just one year shy of its one-hundredth anniversary, was reborn as St. Augustines, as the name was no longer being used for the older parish in St....
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Hempstead Elementary, Hamilton and Minerva Avenues
It’s always fun to come across another Ittner/Milligan school, but in this instance, it was coupled with the terrible realization that the old school had been devastated by fire. Note the teetering...
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St. Augustine, in the Snow
Our Lady of the Snows takes its name from the miraculous snow that fell on the Esquiline Hill in Rome around the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Make sure to catch my lecture on my photography at the...
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Hill Above Downtown, De Soto
We explored the far southern Jefferson County town of De Soto recently, and found these stately homes sitting high up on the bluff above the main street in town. It’s nice to get out and see more wood...
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North De Soto
Heading down the hill, there are more houses, but the lavishness of the houses decreases. Still, there is this magnificent church above and this house below. Down in the valley between two hills are...
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Olive Street, Central West End, Revisited
This building is the headquarters of Prince Hall, which is an African-American branch of Freemasons, named after its founder. I’ve always been a little disappointed with this stretch–there are so many...
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Trinity Lutheran Church, Soulard
Trinity Lutheran traces its roots back to the first Northern German immigrants to St. Louis in the 1930s. While Germans had been arriving from Roman Catholic areas as well, this congregation showed...
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