Category Archives: Demolition
Seven Lost Buildings in Old North
by Michael R. Allen Last month my friend Emily Hemeyer invited me to contribute to a sprawling, wood-made installation called the Migratory Hive Project. The Migratory Hive Project was exhibited outdoors in Columbia, Missouri during the annual True/False Film Festival, … Continue reading
Posted in Abandonment, Demolition, North St. Louis, Old North
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Expiration Date for Pevely Demolition Approaching
by Michael R. Allen Today Riverfront Times reporter Sam Levin has a good article about the status of the Pevely Dairy building at Grand and Chouteau. The main question on people’s minds: What is going on with the Pevely Dairy … Continue reading
Posted in Demolition, Preservation Board
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SLU Devours Another Building
by Michael R. Allen This week St. Louis University started wrecking a historic industrial building near the intersection of Chouteau and Grand avenues — not the Pevely Dairy Company Building, but the old Goodwin Manufacturing Company warehouse most recently owned … Continue reading
Posted in Demolition, Gate District, Industrial Buildings
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The Last Gasometer Falls, St. Louis Less Weird
by Michael R. Allen Ever-alert explorer and geographer Paul Fehler, one of the extraordinary producers behind The Pruitt-Igoe Myth altered me to the fact that something is happening to make St. Louis a whole lot less weird: our last gasometer … Continue reading
Posted in Demolition, North St. Louis
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This Building Matters #3: Powell Square
The building known as “Powell Square,” located at Third and Cedar streets near downtown, was built in 1917 as the pharmaceutical factory of the John T. Milliken Chemical Company. Later users included the Fulton Bag Company and Dan Powell Company, … Continue reading
Posted in Demolition, This Building Matters
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Nothing Sustainable About Bohemian Hill Demolition
by Michael R. Allen On November 19, the Building Division issued a demolition permit for the historic house at the northwest corner of Soulard Avenue and Tucker Boulevard on Bohemian Hill. The Building Division paid over $7,000 for the demolition … Continue reading
Posted in Bohemian Hill, Demolition, South St. Louis
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Losing More Buildings on Martin Luther King Drive
by Michael R. Allen In September and October 2007, the Land Reutilization Authority wrecked the three two-part commercial buildings at 4220, 4222 and 4224 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in the Ville. The demolitions hardly were startling. Alderman Sam Moore … Continue reading
Posted in Abandonment, Demolition, LRA, North St. Louis, The Ville
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Signless and Separated, Pevely Dairy Building Still Reusable — and SLU Can Still Be the Hero
by Michael R. Allen Perhaps right now the Pevely Dairy Plant office building at the southwest corner of Grand and Chouteau seems like the back half of the Titanic, shorn from the rest of the ship and poised to sink … Continue reading
Posted in Demolition, South St. Louis
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Lost: David Carter’s Saloon and Grocery
by Michael R. Allen A distinctive building in the northern reaches of The Ville is no more. In late August, the city wrecked the two-story, mansard-atop-brick mass at 4159 Ashland Avenue. This strange specimen sat on the sidewalk line on … Continue reading
Posted in Brick Theft, Demolition, LRA, North St. Louis, The Ville
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Regression on Laclede Avenue
by Michael R. Allen When development firm Sangita proposed demolition of the three Midtown buildings at 3834-38 Laclede Avenue last May, this writer offered no protest. Later last year the two two-story buildings, built as stores and flats, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Demolition, Midtown
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