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Originally Posted by bartzman
to anyone from St. Louis.....would you describe the typical st Louis house as "French-style"...i dunno, but the ones in jivecity's second pic look kinda french-canadian-ish? i know the name "st louis" is french and that the city flag has a fleur d'lys in it.....but i also know that there are next to no french people in the city...so is that archetecture authentically french-north-american or is it just all co-incidental.....in other words, how French is STL?
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The oldest homes in St. Louis - in Soulard, Benton Park, Carondelet, Lafayette Square, Old North St. Louis, etc. are very much French-inspired. As you head west from downtown towards the neighborhoods that were built in the early 1900's - Tower Grove, the Central West End, etc., the homes start to look more like the Skinker-DeBaliviere houses that I posted.