Central Corridor of STL:

 

 

 

Central West End:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Lewis Place gate)

 

(Washington Terrace Gate)

 

 

The neighborhoods in STL often flow smoothly from one to another, and with that  they don't always have distinct natural boundaries. This part contains Midtown (a little sliver just north of and including St Louis University) and Covenant Blu/Grand Center:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel Cupples House - right in the middle of STL U.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun Theater - currently being renovated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think it is saying something about a city that has a house designed by HH Richardson, and it is comparatively nondescript compared to the city's other houses. The Lionberger House was his last house designed:

 

 

Next section is from further east in the Midtown area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Jewel Box' in Forest Park:

 

STL = Sea Turtle Land if you haven't realized yet...

 

 

 

 

 

 

little bit of Wydown/Skinker:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Downtown STL:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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STL (part 1: non-central corridor STL) http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,28835.0.html

 

STL (part 2: areas outside of St Louis) http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,28836.0.html

 

STL (part 3: central corridor of St Louis) http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,28837.0.html

 

 

 

 

 

Great pics of an interesting city!

 

St Louis is such a cool city...but it always feels like it is a Cincinnati or Pittsburgh, but somehow got a ton of urban renewal money in the 60's that no other city got, and tried to make itself into a Corbusier "future city". With Pruitt Igoe, and all of the crazy double decker freeways and weird green space downtown..was any other peer city ruined by urban renewal as much as STL?  Chicago doesn't even have that kind of overzealous urban renewal. It always just seems strange to me for a city of that size to have urban renewal projects that are more the scope of a big city like NYC or Chicago. That said, I do love some STL.

Nice shots!

Absolutely wonderful collection of St. Louis photos. No exaggeration, the collections are good enough for a book. As noted, mass demolitions have reduced the quantity of great historic architecture in the city but because there was so much more there in the past, so much still survives. It was almost painful to look at the collection of carved stone and terra cotta architectural detail elements-reminded me of the old big game hunters collections of mounted heads from now endangered species.  Speaking of species, I never knew about the Turtle-Terrapin connection in STL?  Many thanks for sharing such a great collection of city photos. Seriously, they are good enough for a pictorial tour-book of the City.

Great photos! For my urban econ class, I have to choose a city to write a city portrait paper on and give the economic history. I've chosen St. Louis. I've already learned quite a bit, but I'm looking forward to learning more. It really does have an interesting story.

Excellent, excellent sets. St. Louis has incredible neighborhoods.