Built St. Louis - Web Log

To the Board of Trustees of the St. Louis County Library: At this moment, the Board of Trustees holds in its hand a rare and remarkable opportunity. With one simple decision, the Board has ...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2014/04/an-open-letter-to-st-louis-county.html

Are you a web content management guru (or guru-in-training)? Ever wanted to lend a hand to Built St. Louis, but didn't know how? Here's your chance! Built St. Louis has always been a hand-tagg...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2014/02/looking-for-technical-help-moving.html

I can't say how much protest and outcry there was 6 years ago when Washington University demolished Prince Hall . The small sampling of comments I saw ranged from my own howls of protest, to som...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2012/12/wash-u-learns-from-recent-mistakes.html

My pace of updates on BuiltStLouis may have slowed, but I've been working furiously behind the scenes - cleaning up, organizing, tying together related pages, updating and reformatting old pages,...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2012/03/mid-century-madness.html

Within the city limits of St. Louis, there are two skylines - the big one downtown, and a small one in Midtown. Between the two lies an area that tends to be overlooked. Thinned out by urban disi...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-between-zone.html

I'm duplicating this post across two blogs, because two parallel battles are being fought right now over MidCentury buildings in Chicago and St. Louis. In Chicago, a well-publicized fight ...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2011/07/midwest-midcentury-fights.html

I had not been by the old Central High School for a while, but after photographing the northwest corner of the JeffVanderLou neighborhood - home to several lovely blocks lined with dozens of Craf...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2011/03/central-high-deterioration.html

As promised, I've been working like a madman on Built St. Louis. I've added a ton of little updates all over the place - spinning major buildings off onto their own pages, combing through a two...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2011/01/industrial-strength-updates.html

No, St. Louis, I haven't forgotten about you. I had a spectacular visit to the city over Thanksgiving weekend, my second trip into town this year. The sun shone for three solid, beautiful day...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2010/12/still-around.html

I visited the model apartment at the Syndicate Trust recently. Like most of downtown's new lofts, it's a pretty slick, clean, modern space, well-lit and elegant. It offers some pretty impressive...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2010/05/syndicate-trust-building-visited-and-re.html

Myself and my two intrepid companions were inside the Calvary Cemetery mausoleum Saturday afternoon, when the eerie silence and occasional rumbles of thunder were broken by the creepy wail of the...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-can-hear-wild-wind-blowin.html

It's been a good long while since I got up on my soapbox, but talk about the Gateway Arch grounds always gets me good and riled up. The Framing a Modern Masterpiece limited competition has sele...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2010/02/arch-grounds-too-much-wasted-space.html

Everyone knows the old tenement by I-70. Its wide facade, marked with fire escape balconies and a regular grid of windows, is one of the highway's most distinctive sights. Local graffiti artist E...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2010/02/different-face-of-north-broadway.html

Where ever I live, I pride myself on not being that guy who, when his friends come from out of town, is seeing the sights for the first time right along with them. Whatever the big attractions ar...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/12/dissecting-soulard.html

Encountered this article while cleaning out email: * "Saving a Sense of the City " - Michael Allen shows a sampling of endangered south side buildings In other news, the San Luis is coming down...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-and-that.html

My basic workhorse camera lens has reached the end of a long, painful death. It covered the medium-to-wide range (18-55mm), and it is damn difficult to photograph city buildings without it! If a...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/06/death-of-lens.html

Michael Allen has posted photos of McEagle's May 21st presentation slides at Flickr. At last, the initial schemes are visible to the public. In general, the slides are fairly unrevealing. Sever...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-overwhelming-scale.html

At a community meeting this week, representatives of Paul McKee's McEagle development company met with residents of the north side neighborhoods targeted by Blairmont and its sister shell compani...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/05/at-last-first-inklings-of-plan.html

Tomorrow, on Valentine's Day, Saturday, February 15th at 12:00pm noon, urbanists, architecture buffs, and plain common-sense folks will come together at Lindell & Taylor to celebrate St. Louis's ...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/02/love-in-for-san-luis.html

It's been several months in the making: the Washington Avenue tour is now completely revitalized and up to date. So much has happened on the Avenue, and my own standards for page and image ...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/01/washington-avenue-revisited.html

Nearly two hundred years ago, settlers began trying to construct a town where the mighty Ohio and Mississippi Rivers came together. Intimately tied to the water and the river trade, Cairo, IL ros...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2009/01/mournful-town-of-cairo-illinois.html

2322 Montgomery Avenue (Larmer LLC, March 2008, $55,000) May 2008 It's a peculiar little HUD house, no longer resembling its mass-produced brethren. It wouldn't be the end of the world if Blai...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2008/11/daily-dose-of-blairmont-204.html

2541 W. Sullivan (Union Martin LLC, May 2008, $66,500) May 2008 It's obvious that Mr. McKee has not yet found time to visit this block in person. If he had, he'd surely be working to renovate ...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2008/11/daily-dose-of-blairmont-203.html

2532 W. Dodier Street (Union Martin LLC, September 2008, $85,000) August 2003 - photograph by Kevin Kieffer I'm sure Paul McKee Jr. wants to get this little frame house occupied again as soon ...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2008/11/daily-dose-of-blairmont-202.html

2209 Sullivan Avenue (Union Martin LLC, September 2008, $8,000) March 2007 This poor little house! Its front face has been mutilated, almost all the windows bricked in. Blairmont here has a ra...

http://builtstlouis.blogspot.com/2008/11/daily-dose-of-blairmont-201.html