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Romanesque Revival Flats From the Gilded Age
by Michael R. Allen Each time I travel west of on Page Boulevard, I keep an eye out for the double set of flats at 3831 Page. Although vacant for the past five years or more, the building always brings...
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Depletion, West Evans Avenue
by Michael R. Allen This summer and fall, brick thieves have destroyed four houses on the 4200 block of West Evans Avenue in the Vandeventer neighborhood. Shown above are three of the houses, the...
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4011 Delmar Apartment Building For Sale
by Michael R. Allen At 4011 Delmar Boulevard in the Vandeventer neighborhood stands a massive abandoned apartment building. The first floor base, clad in buff terra cotta, supports a H-shaped upper...
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Fading on Delmar
by Michael R. Allen The storefront additions at 4035 (left) and 4033 (right) Delmar Boulevard in slightly better condition last year. Last month, I reported that the large apartment building at 4011...
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More Depletion, West Evans Avenue
by Michael R. Allen There is a certain charm to the row of three stone-faced houses on the south side of the 4200 block of West Evans Avenue. The bracketed wooden cornices and stone sills with carved...
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Depletion, 4205 Page Boulevard
by Michael R. Allen On February 3, the Building Division issued a demolition permit to Transformation Christian Church and Outreach Center for the house at 4205 Page Boulevard in the Vandeventer...
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Fout Place Fading Away at Cook and Whittier
by Michael R. Allen Looking west across Whittier Avenue at the remaining house built by Frederick W. Fout after 1892. Although heavily deteriorated, and possessed by a shadowy real estate speculator,...
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The Charles H. Duncker Residence: A Falling Castle on Page Boulevard
by Michael R. Allen In St. Louis, the city’s preservation ordinance creates review of demolition permits on architectural and historic merits only in designated districts. These districts are...
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