Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom loft in the Alexander Lofts at 1121 Locust in downtown St. Louis came on the market in March 2019. The Alexander Lofts were designed by John D. Paulus in 1906. It hosted a dozen companies over the years including General Motors Truck Company. It was converted into 8 luxury lofts and a ground […]

This 2-bedroom duplex up loft in the Bankers Loft building at 901 Washington in the downtown came on the market in July 2019. Washington was the hub of St Louis’ industrial economy in the 1800s. Dozens of industrial buildings, which are similar in size and character to those in Chicago’s Printers Row, were built on […]

The luxury apartment building craze isn’t limited to Chicago. The tallest residential building in St. Louis is under construction in the trendy Central West End neighborhood at 100 North Kingshighway. If the design seems vaguely familiar that’s because it’s being designed by Jeanne Gang at the Studio Gang Architects, who also designed Aqua in Lakeshore […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 2118 Lafayette in Lafayette Square in St. Louis came on the market in February 2019. Built in 1870 on a large 35×165 lot, it has a fully fenced in yard and a 2-car garage. The homes directly on the Square are larger than those built on the surrounding streets. […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 1818 Lasalle in Lafayette Square in St Louis came on the market in June 2019. Lafayette Square is a historic area which surrounds the oldest park west of the Mississippi River. The homes are larger than in nearby Soulard with some directly across from the park being in the […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 4904 Pershing Place in St. Louis’ Central West End came on the market in June 2019. Built in 1897 it’s on a small lot and doesn’t appear to have any parking. But it’s on what the listing calls a “coveted” private street which has an assessment of $450 a […]

This 5-bedroom mansion at 5165 Lindell Boulevard in Central West came on the market in May 2019. Built in 1908 by architects Mariner & La Beaume, the listing describes it as the “golden age” of St. Louis architecture. Lindell runs on the north side of Forest Park, the largest urban park in America. It is […]

This 2-bedroom at the Ruckert on 12th at 2330 S. 12th in Soulard in St. Louis came on the market in June 2019. This building was constructed by Henry Ruckert in 1889 and has 6 units and partial garage parking (by partial that means there is a door on a carport but the garage is […]

This historic 4-bedroom brick single family home at 2309 S. 12th in Soulard in St. Louis came on the market in April 2018. Built in 1890, it is a rare home that is on a double lot measuring 50×142 in the historic Soulard neighborhood which has small, irregular lots laid out by the French. The […]

I recently spent some time in St. Louis. St. Louis was the fourth largest city in America at one point (as was Charleston, South Carolina, incidentally.) Much of its historic architecture remains. Is St. Louis a buying opportunity for architecture lovers priced out of Washington DC, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia? I’ll be cribbing on St. […]