Louis’ history, with some houses dating back to before the Civil War. The housing stock reflects the early years of St. Louis, Old North had its own Market Street (now North Market) and three circular public spaces: one for a church, a park, and a school. Originally laid out as a suburb a mile or two north of the original St. Louis and Fourteenth, take a walk around the increasingly renovated and revitalized neighborhood of Old North St. Starting around Crown Candy Kitchen at St. Louis Place and all of the way to the city limits. Louis, beginning down by the levee, heading west through Old North St. Louis Avenue was once one of the most exclusive streets in North St. Louis Avenue from Fourteenth Street to Parnell Avenue Passing by Reservoir Hill, the locus of the city’s water supply for the South Side in the 19th Century, one crosses over Grand into the Shaw neighborhood, where the stately houses built on the former property of Henry Shaw surround the Missouri Botanical Garden, at whose wall Russell dead-ends. Next, Russell skirts along Compton Heights, where the most important German-American businessmen built houses in a new subdivision laid out by Julius Pitzman. Next, Russell passes through the McKinley Heights neighborhood, where you can spot one of Ittner and Milligan designed schools, McKinley High.Ĭrossing over Jefferson, the Fox Park neighborhood has a wealth of Romanesque Revival houses, as well as some of the most beautiful Second Empire and Italianate rowhouses in the city. Several Gothic Revival churches are a testament to the strong role the Church held in early St. Down by Broadway and up to Gravois, the street cuts through the Soulard neighborhood, where Second Empire and Italianate houses predominate, along with the half-flounder, an architecture style often incorporated as a back wing along the alley. Starting all the way down on the South Riverfront, a walk down Russell reveals the 19th and early 20th Century unfolding before you. Russell Boulevard from the Riverfront to Tower Grove Avenue Louis, where you can get out and see the best of St. Here are some suggestions from this author’s favorite parts of St. The city of two-lane streets, where the traffic slows down, is where the real St. The overly wide, bloated avenues that now split our neighborhoods instead of uniting them certainly haven’t helped. Somewhere along the line, people have forgotten how to do that, and it’s a shame. Louisans realized the benefits of strolling their neighborhoods, spotting their friends, or stopping into a business that’s just opened. From the broad sidewalks of downtown, to the tree-lined paths of Tower Grove Park, early St.
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