Showing posts with label #StLouisBuiltEnvironment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #StLouisBuiltEnvironment. Show all posts
12/5/24
12/1/24
1986. Central West End. St. Louis City
From the years that Armin and I would walk the alleys west and north of our house at 4350 McPherson.
A person lived in this garage. He replaced the rotten accordion doors with discarded doors that he had salvaged.
A person lived in this garage. He replaced the rotten accordion doors with discarded doors that he had salvaged.
3/1/24
2009. Fyler - The Paper Street
Last week I had an opportunity to meet with the owner of Keller Manufacturing on Fyler just west of Morgan Ford Rd. Click on the title above to link his business (I want one of these: http://www.gardexusa.com/commercial.asp)
Mr. Keller kindly answered my questions about his business, the buildings (made in 1961), how the street used to look before it was paved and some history of the street (below).
Keller Manufacturing is a series of buildings that I've admired for years:
A paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but in reality remains unpaved. It generally occurs when city planners or sub-division developers submit plans that include such streets; and when changes occur, they are not removed or updated. Fyler was paved in the mid 60's.
Sometime around the turn of the last century a company existed on Fyler, The Parker-Russell Mining Company, that manufactured terra cotta barrel tiles for roofing. The owner of the company had a series of tiny houses made across the street and along MGF that he rented to his employees:
This hill was created when Fyler finally graded and paved. It's filled with broken pieces of terra cotta that previously cluttered the street.
Bits of terra cotta:
This is a typical house along Flyer. Four rooms: The living room and bedroom are upstairs, kitchen and bathroom are downstairs. No basements.
No windows on either side of the houses.
These houses across from Marti's memorial garden on Morgan Ford Rd were also employee housing.
Mr. Keller kindly answered my questions about his business, the buildings (made in 1961), how the street used to look before it was paved and some history of the street (below).
Keller Manufacturing is a series of buildings that I've admired for years:
A paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but in reality remains unpaved. It generally occurs when city planners or sub-division developers submit plans that include such streets; and when changes occur, they are not removed or updated. Fyler was paved in the mid 60's.
Sometime around the turn of the last century a company existed on Fyler, The Parker-Russell Mining Company, that manufactured terra cotta barrel tiles for roofing. The owner of the company had a series of tiny houses made across the street and along MGF that he rented to his employees:
This hill was created when Fyler finally graded and paved. It's filled with broken pieces of terra cotta that previously cluttered the street.
Bits of terra cotta:
This is a typical house along Flyer. Four rooms: The living room and bedroom are upstairs, kitchen and bathroom are downstairs. No basements.
No windows on either side of the houses.
These houses across from Marti's memorial garden on Morgan Ford Rd were also employee housing.
8/27/22
6/7/22
5/8/22
3/6/22
1/8/22
Gone: Church of the Magdalen Teen Town
Church of the Magdalen CYC building which hosted Teen Town in the 60s.
I took this photo shortly before the building was razed.
Google street view shows it standing and then an emptry lot. See it before the images are updated on google by landing on Sutherland and KHW then navigate east.
I took this photo shortly before the building was razed.
Google street view shows it standing and then an emptry lot. See it before the images are updated on google by landing on Sutherland and KHW then navigate east.
12/26/21
9/2/21
8/29/21
Chippewa Viaduct
Historic granitoid.
It was Portland cement–aggregate combination that was intended to bridge the gap between the needs of horse drawn vehicles, which required sure footing, and automobiles, which needed a hard, resilient surface, in the earliest part of the 20th century.
When I was a child in TGS all of the streets and sidewalks were Granitoid as were the street lights. Rain would freeze in between the stones and the cement and create holes. The solution was a cover of horrible black asphalt which is still being used.
This is on the top of the viaduct on Chippewa. My sister and I explored here for decades.
Post from 2010: https://stlouisbricks.blogspot.com/search?q=viaduct
It was Portland cement–aggregate combination that was intended to bridge the gap between the needs of horse drawn vehicles, which required sure footing, and automobiles, which needed a hard, resilient surface, in the earliest part of the 20th century.
When I was a child in TGS all of the streets and sidewalks were Granitoid as were the street lights. Rain would freeze in between the stones and the cement and create holes. The solution was a cover of horrible black asphalt which is still being used.
This is on the top of the viaduct on Chippewa. My sister and I explored here for decades.
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