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Wally’s, Fenton
Coming back from a wonderful lecture on the history of the John Busch Brewery at the Washington Historical Society, I thought it would be fun to stop at Wally’s Great American Roadtrip in Fenton off...
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High Above Downtown Clayton
I was visiting an office in the taller of the two Centene office buildings on some business and I was able to snap some photos of the panorama afforded me from the twenty-first floor. We start by...
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Oakland House, Revisited at Twilight
I first looked at Oakland House way back in October of 2008, and I found myself there in early December again. Constructed by the Benoist Family in 1853 according to designs by the great George I....
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Curtiss-Wright Airplane Plant, Under Threat of Demolition
Aerial View of the Curtiss-Wright Complex at Lambert Field, 1930s, Missouri History Museum, N30660 I read recently that there was an old Curtiss-Wright airplane plant on the north side of Lambert...
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Flora Terrace, Affton
Advertisement for Flora Terrace, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Saturday, September 21, 1929 Only a week before the infamous Stock Market Crash of 1929, a new subdivision was being advertised down Gravois...
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From the Vault: Manchester
Northwest Publishing Company, Plat Book of St. Louis County, Missouri [Page 8] [Manchester, in Bonhomme Township, Twp 45-4 & 45-5] 1909, Missouri History Museum, Lib206-00007 Manchester is one of...
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Manchester Road, Ballwin
Northwest Publishing Company, PLAT BOOK OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI [PAGE 12] [GLENCOE, MERAMEC TOWNSHIP; Detail of BALLWIN, IN SURVEY 1908, BONHOMME T, 1909, Missouri History Museum, Lib206-00011....
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Parkview, Again
W.C. Persons, Westminster Place, West End, Park View Area, 1920s, Missouri History Museum, N14460. I’ve looked at the entrances of Parkview twice before, once back in October of 2012, and then again...
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University Heights
Northwest Publishing Company, Detail of Plat Book of St. Louis County, Missouri [Page 70] [University City and Environs], 1909, Missouri History Museum, Lib206-00069. Did you know the famous gates in...
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Lake Forest
Lake Forest Gateway (at Hanley Road and Clayton Road). Photograph by St. Louis Star-Times, 1936. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. n38894. Scan © 2009, Missouri History...
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More of the Moorlands, Part One
I turns out when I had wandered into the narrow streets just south of Wydown Boulevard in between Hanley and Big Bend in Clayton, I was in the Moorlands, a development of incredible architectural...
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More of the Moorlands, Part Two
We continue on Cromwell before turning left onto Audobon and then another left onto Wellington Way. By the way, a moorland is a highland with grasses and savannahs, particularly common in England. It...
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Wydown Boulevard Between Big Bend and Skinker Boulevards
Map of West Brentmoor, Forest Ridge and Brentmoor Park, 1900-1910, Missouri History Museum, Lib364. I’ve looked at the various private streets west of Big Bend before (here’s a cool map of Forest...
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St. Joseph’s, Manchester
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, c. 1940, Courtesy of Archdiocesan Archives of St. Louis. “Kick out the jams!“ Thanks to the eagle eyes of readers, I discovered that St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic...
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Harugari Cemetery, Manchester
Off of Old Meramec Station Road is the Harugari Cemetery on land donated by the Seibel Family in 1877 in Manchester, many of whom are buried here. The Harugari Society dates to 1848, probably coming...
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Gumbo Cemetery, Chesterfield
Largely ignored by commuters and shoppers heading to the “lifestyle center” along Chesterfield Airport Road, Gumbo Cemetery has roots going back to the purchase of the land by German American...
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St. Mary’s Hospital, Winter 2024
W.C. Persons, St. Mary’s Hospital and Nurse’s Home, Clayton Road and Bellevue Avenue, 1932, Missouri History Museum, N31075. Wow, just look at what St. Mary’s Hospital used to look like almost one...
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Up Around Bellefontaine Road
I had some business up in North County so I snapped some hurried shots of some interesting places along Bellefontaine Road, which was the former name of North Broadway in the City as it wended its way...
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Moorlands / Claverach Park
Pitzman Surveyors and Co. Moorlands Park, May 1921, Missouri History Museum, Lib285 I almost certainly will go back, but I made a first foray into one of the most interesting and beautiful additions...
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Country Club Court
I stumbled across one of the most wonderful little pockets of houses in Clayton, just off Hanley Road and just south of the central business district separated by Forest Park Parkway. The eighteen...
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