Tower Grove East

If you drive down South Grand in South St. Louis, you might have noticed the idle property at the northeast corner of Grand and Sidney. This property at 2350 South Grand is in the Tower Grove East neighborhood, just across the street from Shaw. While there is nothing remarkable about this building, the thing that is remarkable is that it has sat vacant and idle while everything else around it has been...

When a duplex decays to the condition of 3434 Humphrey, the end result is often a date with a wrecking ball. But that wasn't the fate for this architectural beauty in the Tower Grove East neighborhood of St. Louis.Development is now complete on the conversion of this duplex to a 2,394 square foot single-family home. The finished product features 4 bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms, and includes many...

Let me go on the record as saying I love historic architecture. It humbles me to think that with all the technological advancements of the last 100 years, the buildings of 100 years ago display a level of craftsmanship that seems to be lost in the modern day. That being said, our current system of preserving these historic structures misses the point entirely...