THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE EMERGING North Central Corridor in St. Louis contain a bit of everything: grand apartment buildings, schools designed by noted architect William Ittner, structures reduced to ruins, and modern houses that would be right at home in St. Charles.

Scroll down to see a gallery of images from the area. The sequence starts with the West End neighborhood near Skinker Boulevard and generally runs eastward. (McPherson’s earlier story about the North Central Corridor is available here.)

(All photos by McPherson Publishing unless otherwise noted.)

This map from Great Rivers Greenway shows the neighborhoods of the North Central Corridor highlighted in green. The planned greenway along the route of the old Hodiamont streetcar line is also shown.
The gates of West Cabanne Place in the West End. Architect Theodore Link, who designed Union Station, lived in the house in the photo. He designed it for his family.
West Cabanne Place
The right-of-way of the old Hodiamont streetcar line crosses the St. Vincent Greenway in the West End.
The shingle houses of the West End make the neighborhood distinct from the red brick that dominates St. Louis architecture.
“Under Contract” and “Coming Soon” on Maple Avenue near the St. Vincent Greenway. The house under contract was listed recently for $339,900 on the agent’s website.
An enclave of substantial houses on Bartmer Avenue off Page Boulevard
Fixer-uppers on Bartmer Avenue near Thornby Place
The gates of Thornby Place
Newer homes on Vernon Avenue
Some apartment buildings on Cabanne Avenue in the West End appear to be vacant
The former West Presbyterian Church, now the Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Solomons Temple Church on Page Boulevard. The campus of The Principia, a Christian Science college, was located on this stretch of Page before moving to Elsah, Illinois in the 1930s.
The headquarters of social services organization Better Family Life Inc. in the former Ralph Waldo Emerson school on Page Boulevard
Detail from an information board along the St. Vincent Greenway (courtesy of Great Rivers Greenway)
Another detail from an information board (Great Rivers)
Soldan High School at 918 Union Boulevard
Detail from the Soldan facade
The Cabanne Branch of the St. Louis Public Library, two blocks north of Soldan. Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie provided the funds for the building.
The “Cabanne Castle” apartment building just west of Union. Demolition is underway as part of a planned renovation by a Clayton development company.
A detail from the Castle
The 1905 buildings, now loft apartments, that formerly housed Smith Academy in the Visitation Park neighborhood. Smith, a feeder school for Washington University, was a forerunner of today’s Mary Institute and Country Day School in Ladue.
Detail from a St. Vincent Greenway information board showing racial segregation in St. Louis in 1930. (Great Rivers)
Kingsway Development President Kevin Bryant in front of a house his company is renovating in Fountain Park
The statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. in oval-shaped Fountain Park
Spring bulbs and severe dilapidation at the northeast end of Fountain Park
Renovation underway on North Euclid Avenue in Fountain Park
Looking across Delmar Boulevard between Euclid and Walton. Kingsway Development plans to renovate the boarded-up building on the left into the Elevation office center.
A rendering of the planned courtyard next to Elevation, facing out on Delmar (courtesy of Kingsway Development)
The Hodiamont tracks running eastward through the Lewis Place neighborhood
Detail from the east gate of Lewis Place
New houses on Finney Avenue near the campus of Ranken Technical College
Renovation underway in the 4400 block of Enright Avenue
A mural by local teenagers in Turner Park on North Sarah Street
The North Sarah mixed-income development, completed in 2017
The Page Discount Market stands out at Page Boulevard and Vandeventer Avenue
Traces of midcentury design across from Page Discount Market

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