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Midtown is a burgeoning neighborhood of St. Louis that has seen much investment and care. Midtown Alley, St. Louis University, Wells Fargo Advisors are all familiar sections. The architecture is incredible, largely intact and much good news and investment appears to follow Midtown into the next decade.
LaSalle Park is a victim of the Interstate highway system isolating it from Souldard to the east. It is also tragically isolated by Tucker and Chouteau, two of St. Loui's’ most overly-wide streets. LaSalle Park survived multiple attempts at urban clearance and mass blighting to become somewhat stabilized. The historic and replica infill is great as is the newly renovated public housing in the neighborhood.
DeBaliviere Place is one of St. Louis neighborhoods that was built around the 1904 Worlds Fair, continuing through the 1920s, with many gorgeous mansions and apartment buildings. Just north of Forest Park, this area has seen new multiunit residential construction in recent years and is on the verge of yet another transformation along DeBaliviere Avenue.
The Tiffany Neighborhood has lost a lot of buildings to the wrecking ball in the last twenty years. But with the new hospital built, you can now start to reimagine a more dense neighborhood with new housing fill in the massive acres of unused space and surface parking lots. Gorgeous homes, new basketball courts and a charming park, Tiffany is a fantastic place to live.
Kings Oak is a highly visible neighborhood, as it can be seen just south of I-64, across from Forest Park's baseball fields and horse stables; and it's eastern border is visible on the heavily travelled Kingshighway Blvd. Several easily recognizable institutions (St. Louis University High, St. Louis Science Center and Compton Drew Investigative Learning School) anchor the neighborhood.
The neighborhood has some areas that are typical of South City, a la Holly Hills, Princeton Heights, Southampton, etc. Other parts of the neighborhood are more suburban with cul-de-sacs and no sidewalks, etc. Overall, the edge of the city that gives you a distinct feel of the Southside, with a taste of what South County becomes.
Firstly, this neighborhood has the best website I've seen to date. Shaw's was good, McKinley Heights and Clifton Heights were good, this one is exceptional. This place sounds like the garden of freakin' eden. I'm a gardener, I'm a lover of local foods and produce, I'm a fan of old buildings; I was giddy to check this neck of the woods out.
After visiting Patch yesterday and ONSL today, I feel as though I've discovered two of the neighborhoods with the most rehab activity and positive improvement going on. I really like it here. This could be the Soulard of the north because of all the row houses. I feel optimistic about the future of this place.
Back in September, 2009 I made it a personal goal to visit and document each of St. Louis' 79 neighborhoods. I've come to the conclusion that it's going to take me years to reach my goal of posting on all 79 neighborhoods in St. Louis at the rate I'm going. It's not that hard, it just takes a lot of time. So far, I've done 9 neighborhoods in 4 months. I'm only 11% of the way toward completion! At this rate it will take me over 3 years to complete this task.
As you may be able to grasp from the above entry, this place is struggling. Frankly, the housing stock that exists in WPE was probably never anything out of the ordinary or special in any way. Working class, small, mostly frame houses were built here. The brick bungalows that were built here are not in great enough numbers to be impactful or stand out. The housing in WPE is not really similar to any other neighborhood I've visited so far. Meaning, the structures just aren't that special. This is not as true for Walnut Park West, but I'll get to that in a separate post.
Visitation Park is a near north city neighborhood with beautiful mansions, incredible architecture and a prominent park. This neighborhood tour was originally published in December, 2009 with updates from July, 2019. The neighborhood is bound by Delmar Boulevard to the south, Belt Avenue to the west, Maple Avenue to the north and Union Boulevard to the east.
Princeton Heights is a tidy south city neighborhood that benefits from being near the Macklind Avenue district and the convenience of South City shopping, parks and services. If you like the St. Louis gingerbread, bungalows and Dutch colonial homes, this is one of the spots to find them. This neighborhood tour was originally published in December, 2009 with updates from September, 2019.
McKinley Heights is a south central city neighborhood conveniently located to all things the city offers. The neighborhood is bound by Gravois Avenue to the south and east, Jefferson Avenue to the west and I-44 to the north. This neighborhood tour was originally published in October, 2009 with updates from September, 2019.
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