early winter in saint louis

[Centropolis]

[James Bond Agent 007]

It is really obvious St Louis is different from KC. Great job!

[Pennsylvania Peeker]

Something mesmerizing about old brick buildings, natural lighting that works for only brief moments, and memories of my childhood during the 1950s.

Beautiful stuff here. Thanks!

[Xing]

Man that red brick is the shit! Thanks for the pics mang! Well done old chap!

[Centropolis]

thanks! i wanted to wander today in the central west end but the sky was shooting ice pellets and then dumping cold rain.

Beautiful. I'm happy to finally be moving home after 10 years "abroad". Can't wait to rehab an old brick beauty.

[soulard&como]

Love that winter lighting. Had fun guessing which neighborhood based on context clues in each picture.

Great work.

[lio45]

Great pics!

Those townhouses with a sloping roof and a single, narrow attic "dormer window", how old are they exactly? Architecturally, some of them at least look ~1820-1830 to me, and if so, I'm glad there are still several of those left!

[STLgasm]

Originally Posted by lio45

Great pics!

Those townhouses with a sloping roof and a single, narrow attic "dormer window", how old are they exactly? Architecturally, some of them at least look ~1820-1830 to me, and if so, I'm glad there are still several of those left!

Those are called flounder houses. While flounders can be found in a few cities in in the Midwest, Appalachia and mid-Atlantic, St. Louis has by far the largest collection in the country. Google it- lots of very interesting info about them.

Great tour, Centropolis!

[MJPhilly]

Nice work, I enjoyed seeing some of St. Louis' neighborhood details

Originally Posted by STLgasm

Those are called flounder houses...

gasm, i don't think he was asking about flounders (there's only one flounder pictured and it doesn't have a dormer). i think he was talking about these:

[Razor]

Great pics..Love that red brick..Thanks for the little factoid on them too...Will google flounder houses.

[STLgasm]

Originally Posted by IWant2BeInSTL

gasm, i don't think he was asking about flounders (there's only one flounder pictured and it doesn't have a dormer). i think he was talking about these:

My bad-- should've read the post more closely.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by IWant2BeInSTL

Yep, I meant these, exactly!
(Though I did google flounder houses, that's pretty unique! Can't believe I had never noticed that style in all my (brief) visits to STL!)

Anyone knows how old they are...? They must be getting closer to becoming bicentenarian...

[Centropolis]

the "old" city burned in 1849 -

wikipedia

and soulard appears mostly built out by 1875 on the compton and dry pictoral map: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/addIte...164sm+gpm00001))

so i'd peg the neighborhood and those structures between those two dates.

[Centropolis]

soulard is named for antoine soulard (and his wife julia soulard), a surveyor and escapee of the french revolution (he was an officer in the french army) who worked for the spanish government in french speaking st. louis. his wife went on to subdivide their land after his death and it developed as an early suburb of st. louis.

[Arch City]

Great set. One of the best in awhile.

The city just needs to keep adding modern and current architecture to balance out the aesthetic.

Imagine how the whole city would look if it hadn't lost so much stock.

But even with those losses, St. Louis is doing good although more needs to be done to save deteriorating structures and housing stock.