A random set of photos, moving backward in time throughout 2014.
Downtown St. Louis from the historic Eads Bridge (1875)
Gateway Arch in autumn
A view west down Market Street; the Old Courthouse sits in the foreground
New hamster tunnels installed over the submerged highway that sits in front of the Arch:
Historically-sensitive infill in the Lafayette Square neighborhood:
Second Empire home in Benton Park:
Annual Balloon Glow in Forest Park (September):
Lafayette Square
Several house portraits from Soulard:
A couple shots in Benton Park, just west of Soulard:
A couple homes in suburban Kirkwood, Missouri, a Victorian-era suburb about 15 miles southwest of downtown St. Louis:
Awesome rehab in the McKinley Heights neighborhood:
Entrance to historic Tower Grove Park, a National Historic Landmark...the gatehouse is a ~600 square foot apartment that I wish I had rented when I saw it online for rent.
"Castles" in Southwest Garden neighborhood:
The Holly Hills neighborhood:
Awesome hidden Art Deco-styled single family home in the far southwestern corner of the City:
Rehab in Benton Park:
New construction in Lafayette Square:
New townhomes in the Lindenwood Park neighborhood:
A small home in Forest Park Southeast, recently rehabbed:
Vacant corner building in Forest Park Southeast:
Freshly rehabbed corner house in Tower Grove East:
Inside Union Station in Downtown St. Louis:
Park East Tower, Central West End
Chase Park Plaza, Central West End
Central West End skyline:
Rooftops of the Central West End:
Dutchtown entry-marker, South Side:
My new house, right off of Cherokee Antique Row:
Unique (i.e., non-brick) home in southwest St. Louis:
Benton Park streetscape:
Lafayette Square:
New construction in the Botanical Heights neighborhood:
The rehab of a building where a set of neighboring rowhouses had been recently torn down; the "ghost mantels" are visible.
Shopping at an outdoor antique market in Lafayette Square:
Drinks on Cherokee Street:
Mural on Macklind:
Awesome and unlikely rehab of a once heavily damaged corner building in Benton Park West:
A brand new mixed use building that a Subway franchise owner built in Soulard to comply with historic code. Initially he wanted to build a typical suburban-styled store but was rebuffed. Two apartments sit above the Subway restaurant:
Lafayette Square mansard restoration:
My neighborhood, Marine Villa:
The Lemp Brewery viewed from an abandoned school playground (yes, that's the outline of the state of Missouri):
More Marine Villa:
More infill in Botanical Heights:
Benton Park rows:
Easter in the downtown sculpture garden, Citygarden:
From when the show American Ninja Warrior was filmed in St. Louis. It was mid-April, which is usually an awesome time to be in St. Louis weather-wise, but that night it was in the mid-30s. Note: the City took down the street signs when the film crews left.
Soldier's Memorial, Downtown
Former gas station in Shaw, now catering company:
Not your typical garage:
Fox Park:
More Fox Park:
Ballpark Village, downtown St. Louis:
The Hill, St. Louis's Little Italy with its tiny shotgun houses:
New construction in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood:
Central West End rowhouses:
Contemporary home under construction in the Central West End:
Incredible rehab in the Gate District...used to be covered entirely in stucco.
Compton Heights:
Benton Park West:
Small building in the Grove with its roof collapsed then-under rehab, now completed:
Contemporary home under construction in Botanical Heights:
More historically-sensitive infill going up in Lafayette Square:
Soulard terminal vista:
Downtown:
View from the Ballpark Village roofdeck at night:
Downtown at night:
New student apartments infill in the Loop under construction:
A nice Benton Park rehab:
Contrasting homes in the Bohemian Hill neighborhood:
Great rehab of a corner building that exposed an old beer ad, Tower Grove South:
Holy Corners, Central West End:
Decaying circa 1850s rowhouses on the Near North Side:
View of downtown from the north from the new Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge that opened earlier this year just north of downtown:
The bridge itself:
Another bridge shot from the day before the bridge opened to cars:
Benton Park in the snow:
Signing off with a massive New Urbanist development in suburban St. Charles, Missouri 25 miles northwest of downtown St. Louis:
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