Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about building history particularly focused on St. Louis byggnadshistoria.
På 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 children. The St. Louis ärkestift invigde kyrkan
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. 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
En 122-årig tegelhus dominerar gatubilden i hörnet av Whittier Street och Cook Avenue i St. Louis, Missouri. Byggare uppfördes den 2378 kvadratmeter stort hus i 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. I dag, 4200 Cook is
På 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. The 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
På lördag, Mars 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
En kall januarinatt i 1904, när staden St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Det var 5:45 p.m. den 13 januari på gamla Brown Shoe Company fabrik i hörnet av Washington Avenue och North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to
Ödet för mycket av St. Louis’ historiska byggnader bevisa gamla fastigheter ordspråket. Det handlar om plats, läge, läge. Om byggnaden ligger i South St. Louis, den har en bättre chans att räddas än en byggnad på norra sidan. The same could be said for buildings located in the center of the city except
General William Tecumseh Sherman av inbördeskriget berömmelse hade djupa rötter i St. Louis sträcker sig tillbaka till 1843. Som en soldat, han fick Jefferson baracker. Han var också involverad i St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Street tåg Företag president tills han lämnade St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war, St. Louis’ citizens
Jag tidigare skrev om en incident där en Detective Sergeant för St. Louis polis blev skjuten under ett rånförsök. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Louis historia, 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