Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about building history particularly focused on St. Louis bouwgeschiedenis.
Op november 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 kinderen. De St. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Wijk Louis Place. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. These pictures are
Buildings are just piles of boards and bricks without the stories that are attached to them. During November 1912, St. Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston was killed by paroled murderer Albert Whitefield. Whitefield had surprised his common-law wife, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
A 122-year-old brick house dominates the street scene at the corner of Whittier Street and Cook Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Builders erected the 2378 square foot house in 1892. Its unique architecture includes a turret balcony on the second floor of the northeast wall. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Vandaag, 4200 Cook is
On September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. De St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
Op zaterdag, Maart 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives
Op een koude januari nacht in 1904, toen de stad van St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Het was 5:45 p.m. on January 13th at the old Brown Shoe Company factory at the corner of Washington Avenue and North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to
Het lot van een groot deel van St. Louis’ historische gebouwen blijken de oude vastgoed adagium. Het draait allemaal om locatie, plaats, plaats. Als het gebouw is in de South St. Louis, het heeft een betere kans om te worden gered dan een gebouw op de North Side. The same could be said for buildings located in the center of the city except
Generaal William Tecumseh Sherman van de Burgeroorlog roem had diepe wortels in St. Louis die teruggaat tot 1843. Als soldaat, Hij werd toegewezen aan Jefferson Barracks. Hij was ook betrokken bij St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Straat Railroad Company President tot zijn vertrek St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war, St. Louis’ citizens
Ik schreef eerder over een incident waarbij een brigadier voor de St. Louis De politie werd neergeschoten tijdens een overval. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Louis geschiedenis, Detective Sergeant James Martin King’s home in January 1920 still exists. The home is still in excellent condition. 4973 Lotus Avenue was the home of Sgt. King in