A Blog detailing the beauty of St. Louis architecture and the buildup of residue-or character-that accumulates over the course of time.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Union Trust, Downtown
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
How Important Is a City's Link with Its River? A Look at Rome, Italy
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
National Stockyards' Pre-Columbian History
It turns out there was a major Mississippian culture city under the National Stockyards around one thousand years ago. Read the article here before it expires at the Post-Dispatch website.
Monday, December 27, 2010
St. Louis: Playground to the Entire Region
Why does it seem like everyone who wants to engage in illegal activity feel the need to come down to the City of St. Louis to cause trouble? I've started to notice--and it's a trend that certainly has been going on for a long time--that many of the high profile crimes in the city recently have been committed by non-St. Louis City residents.
Take the drag race on the Near North Riverfront a few weeks ago where a teenage girl was hit by two other teenagers racing by her. Neither of the drivers, using open, public streets that any innocent person could have wandered into in the middle of their race, were from St. Louis City. One suspect was from Glen Carbon, the other from South St. Louis County. After scanning Google Maps, I located several places where these young ruffians could have engaged in their 'sport' without having to drive to the big, dark, scary city:
Bluff Road looks like the perfect place for young Trenton Pinckard to have raced his car without having to put the citizens of another municipality in danger.
Likewise, William Mack Sapp could have easily "kicked butt" in a drag race along arrow-straight Union Road; the curve over the I-55 interstate bridge could make racing there have a new twist.
As I arrived for work at the Art Museum, I stepped over beer bottles left by revelers on Art Hill who had come to sled on its famous slope. Since when did the City have to absorb all of the region's troublemakers? Couldn't they cause trouble in their own communities?
Take the drag race on the Near North Riverfront a few weeks ago where a teenage girl was hit by two other teenagers racing by her. Neither of the drivers, using open, public streets that any innocent person could have wandered into in the middle of their race, were from St. Louis City. One suspect was from Glen Carbon, the other from South St. Louis County. After scanning Google Maps, I located several places where these young ruffians could have engaged in their 'sport' without having to drive to the big, dark, scary city:
Bluff Road looks like the perfect place for young Trenton Pinckard to have raced his car without having to put the citizens of another municipality in danger.
Likewise, William Mack Sapp could have easily "kicked butt" in a drag race along arrow-straight Union Road; the curve over the I-55 interstate bridge could make racing there have a new twist.
As I arrived for work at the Art Museum, I stepped over beer bottles left by revelers on Art Hill who had come to sled on its famous slope. Since when did the City have to absorb all of the region's troublemakers? Couldn't they cause trouble in their own communities?
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Sunnyside Up #2
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Christmas at Fourth Baptist
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
St. Liborius, St. Louis Place
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Old North, Land Reutilization Authority Houses
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
St. Louis Place, Wastelands
Monday, December 20, 2010
Brick Rustling, Northern St. Louis Place
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Church, Maeystown, Illinois
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Near North Riverfront
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Kahoka Courthouse Threatened with Demolition
Thanks to Missouri Preservation, I learned today that the Clark County Courthouse is threatened with demolition. Because you know, in these robust economic times, we can afford to tear down perfectly fine, if purposely dilapidated buildings at our whim. See my original post here.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Out of Lemp Photos
Sorry, I'm out of Lemp Brewery pictures. But I have a link to a great site that my coworker Joe Sardo told me about; it has historic photos from around America. See it here.
Monday, December 13, 2010
City Garden, Successful Urban Renewal
Friday, December 10, 2010
Old Cathedral
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Corrosion, Gateway Arch
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Top Floor, Lemp Brewery
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A Blog detailing the beauty of St. Louis architecture and the buildup of residue-or character-that accumulates over the course of time.