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Glasgow Village, The Past
St. Louis County Open Government, Aerial View of Glasgow Village, 1955. I read a recent Post-Dispatch article about the recent travails of the unincorporated North County community of Glasgow Village,...
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Monday Club and Other Historic Houses, Webster Groves
I thought it was time to get back to Webster Groves, considering that the last post I made on the city was in May of 2013(!) and there are a grand total of nine for the historic suburb. We’ll start by...
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Marshall Place and the Former Webster College
Platted early in the history of Webster Groves and served by the nearby train station, houses on Marshall Place date from 1860 to 1910, a span of fifty years. It was platted by John Marshall in 1860,...
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Algonquin Place Over to West Jackson Road
Taking its name from the historic golf club across West Lockwood Avenue, Algonquin Place possesses a host of houses from the 1910s and 20s. Not surprisingly, there are many Tudor Revival homes. There...
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Mary, Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church
While located just across the border in Webster Groves, the Roman Catholic church of Mary, Queen of Peace is often associated with the small suburb of Glendale. The current church was built in 1955...
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Lake School, Revisited
Well, this came out of left field. Creve Coeur wants to demolish the historic Lake School, which I looked at back on New Year’s Eve of 2021. I went by a couple of weeks ago to evaluate the condition...
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Bethany Cemetery, St. Charles Rock Road
We looked at the now fire-gutted former sanctuary of Bethany Evangelisch Church last week, so I thought I would check out the accompanying cemetery out St. Charles Rock Road. Like just about all...
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Normandy, Part One
Northwest Publishing Company, Detail of Plat book of St. Louis County, Missouri [Page 79] [Part of St. Ferdinand and Central Townships, 46 North. Range 6 East], 1909, Missouri History Museum,...
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Normandy, Part Two
Crossing over Florissant Road, we are now on Bermuda Drive, which appears on the Normandy Park plat maps. We see the back of the house above which we saw back in May of 2019. Much like along...
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Normandy, Part Three
On the west side of Florissant Road, opposite St. Vincent Children’s Services, which is again another land donation of the Lucas-Hunt family, we have a row of houses from the 1920s and 30s. There is a...
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Bel-Nor
St. Louis Plat and Record Company, Atlas of St. Louis County [Volume 1] Page 47a [Country Club Addition of Normandy Park], 1909, Missouri History Museum, Lib210-00001-050 As can be seen clearly...
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Greendale
Heading up Normandy Avenue, I first glanced over at the historic Normandie Golf Club and noticed earth being moved around. Had it finally been purchased and subdivided for houses, as had been...
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Grantwood Village
In the late 1920s, the R. Mederacke Realty and Investment Company began the development of what was originally known as Grantwood Terrace, just to the east of Grant’s Farm on Gravois Road. St. Louis...
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J. Milton Turner School, Meacham Park
Named after a freed slave, the J. Milton Turner School was built as part of the Kirkwood School district in Meacham Park, a predominantly African American area that was only later annexed into the...
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Lakeshire
I know an acquaintance who lives in the small South County city of Lakeshire, so I finally made it out there after becoming intrigued by its appearance through Google Street View. Apparently the town...
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St. Paul’s Church and Cemetery, Oakville, and Environs
Let’s head south, deep into South St. Louis County and check out some very old historic sites. Our first stop is St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, Oakville, which was probably originally a German...
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Kassebaum House and Environs
The August Kassebaum House sits on Lemay Ferry Road just north of Butler Hill Road; it was built in 1907 at the unincorporated village of Mattese. Designed by William Wedemeyer, its advanced ornament...
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Around Grant’s Farm
At first, I was flabbergasted to find the site of the Joseph Sappington House to be an empty lot, but some quick Google research led me to discover that the log cabin has been disassembled and is...
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Yeats-Tutts House
Built by Thomas Yeats in 1830 and also known as Graystone Lodge, this house is one of the oldest in the City of Kirkwood. It was later bought by the Tutts family in the 1860s.
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Chesterfield Mall, Under Demolition
While demolition officially commenced on October 15, exterior signs of the deconstruction of the almost fifty year old Chesterfield Mall have only just begun to show on the exterior. Completion is set...
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