Infrastructure Fail. St Louis City

An underestimation of a city on its residents.

South St Louis

Door Fence

Many years ago I admired a gorgeous collection of doors in Midtown/CWE that someone had used to make a fence. It was about 75 feet long. While I love the reuse to discarded doors I've deep sorrow that these quarter sawn oak doors weren't appreciated in their original use. Better here than a landfill.

Part 2 of Last Weekend

Laverne Apartments:





These tiles, the marble staircase, and the mail box were the highlight of this excursion.
I was astonished to encounter the original brass mail box unit still in situ:



Sam Meller:

Sarah Jane and The Blue Notes:

Send Flowers

I have to go back.
I missed doing photos of the stained pink pointing on this exquisite building. It's critical because the emphasis is on the phenomenaland v aried brickwork and the terra cotta relief. The objective was no visible mortar hence the staining and using rubbed brickwork wasn't an option. Marble steps and limestone foundation.

Sunflowers in a vase surrounded by egg and dart:


Radial, bull nose, pyramid, and were those edges rubbed off?


The owner kindly talked to me about his building which was built in 1895 and is
located on 39 Iowa. Thanks Tom!