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John F. Kennedy High School, Demolished
Kennedy High School is no more. There are only long piles of rubble. The machines who did the deed are sitting around surveying their work, and other Caterpillar products are awaiting their turn to...
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Woods Mill Center, Facing Demolition
There doesn’t seem to be much research or scholarship done on the subject, but there should be more study of shopping centers “left behind,” sort of like the Bates Motel, when a major traffic artery...
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John F. Kennedy High School, Interior and Today
Henry T. Mizuki, Auditorium at John F. Kennedy High School, 500 Woods Mill Road in Manchester, July 1971, Missouri History Museum, P0374-04092-17-4p I dug up some old photos of John F. Kennedy High...
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Macy’s Closing at Chesterfield Mall
Back in May of 2020, I had predicted the shuttered Macy’s at Chesterfield Mall would never reopen after it closed at the beginning of the pandemic. It did in fact reopen, but now it is closing again,...
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The Mysterious House, Revealed
We were shocked recently to discover that a wooded estate in the 17000 block of Wild Horse Creek Road had been cleared of its trees, revealing an extremely old house that according to satellite images...
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TopGolf and the District, Chesterfield
In case readers living outside of a metropolitan region where there is currently no TopGolf, I thought I would take a couple of photos to show what such facilities look like. This is the one out in...
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Private Traffic Signals
Looking northeast from the termination of West Pine Boulevard at Lindell Boulevard I recently became fascinated with the phenomenon of “private” traffic signals, which are electric traffic control...
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Whispering Oakwood, Reborn
I had been following the saga of the house that had been in various legal wrangles with the suburb of Ballwin for years. As I reported in the past, it had been foreclosed on by a New York bank, and...
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Odds and Ends
Looking east at 10th and Market streets, Downtown. Apparently I see some things around the city that make me chuckle or stop and just look. Here are a few from the last month or so. Mushroom, lawn in...
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Howard Bend, February 2023
I’ve been driving out and around the Howard Bend area since the early 1990s, and it’s interesting t see how it’s been changing. In fact, one of my earliest posts, almost fifteen years ago, looked at...
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Chesterfield, Post-Chesterfield Mall
Big things are happening out to the west of the now almost completely defunct Chesterfield Mall, which entered the hallowed halls of my Crumby Run-Down Malls of St. Louis pantheon with this post in...
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End of Winter 2023 Odds and Ends
The old Soulard Branch of the St. Louis Public Library has had several uses over the last decade besides the commercial space facing 7th Boulevard. There was “The Library” and then “The Archives.”...
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Reinke Barn, Bluebird Park
Tucked in a valley in Bluebird Park in Ellisville is the Reinke Barn, moved from its original location west of Clarkson Road on Manchester Road. Originally built in 1905 for Henry Reinke, laborers...
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Eberwein Park
Time for more barns! Eberwein Park is the former farm of the eponymous family, who sold hay harvested from its fields into the Twenty-First Century. It is now a public park owned by the City of...
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The Former Faust Estate
Always take that strange narrow road and see where it goes. We were recently visiting Faust Park in Chesterfield to look at the collection of historic West County structures on display there (see them...
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AMC Theater Closes at Chesterfield Mall
I was surprised to discover that the relatively new AMC theater at Chesterfield Mall had closed back on May 18 of this year. Yes, the mall is going to be demolished for redevelopment, but the...
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Celtic Meadows, Nearing Completion
I’ve looked at the former John F. Kennedy High School before, then during demolition, and then last year as initial site grading had begun. We were surprised that by mid 2023 that the subdivision was...
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Wally’s, Fenton
Coming back from a wonderful lecture on the history of the John Busch Brewery at the Washington Historical Society, I thought it would be fun to stop at Wally’s Great American Roadtrip in Fenton off...
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From the Vault: Manchester
Northwest Publishing Company, Plat Book of St. Louis County, Missouri [Page 8] [Manchester, in Bonhomme Township, Twp 45-4 & 45-5] 1909, Missouri History Museum, Lib206-00007 Manchester is one of...
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Manchester United Methodist Church
Just up from Manchester Road from the Lyceum on Woods Mill Road is Manchester Methodist, which has a history dating back to 1826, when the founder of Ballwin, John Ball, donated the land for the first...
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