Wish we had someone like you making videos in Philadelphia. Philly like St. Louis has some of the best architecture in the country. Love hearing the history of these beautiful homes
Perhaps we will make it out there someday to create a special episode. In many ways, St. Louis and Philadelphia are very similar in their 19th century residential architectural styles. Thank you for watching!
@@ThisHouse that would be amazing! I hope you could do that! You would be able to highlight the 19th century while also being able to see many 18th century structures right within center city. There’s even some 17th century homes in philly, but a tad outside the main city area. Only one structure is inside the main city area, the Gloria dei church, was built between 1698-1700s and located within the “old city” neighborhood area of philly. Thanks again though, love the St Louis videos!
Sounds like a calling for you Dalt21! All it takes is someone who loves their city and neighborhood and a camera. You sound like the person to make it happen. The people of Philadelphia will love you for it.
Thanks for sharing. Very in-depth look at the neighborhood. I appreciate your love of detail of the homes. I used to own a Second Empire in the eastern part of Lafayette Square. Great neighborhood and great memories.
So nice that these gems survived ; they add So much beauty and character to the city, and bring pride to everyone living there . No modern construction does this.
Very good execution on this one! Nathan has a lot to remember for these videos. I make videos about old cameras and it's really tough to remember all of the fine details
I loved this video with all of the information and the background music and photography. This video, on a whole, is very well executed and a great commentary for St.Louis.
Great job explaining the history of Lafayette Square. I'm enjoying this Video so much I feel it would be so fun to go with some friends and have a look for myself seeing close up the beauty of these gems! Thank you for what you do!! Linda from Michigan +
These homes are very well taken care of, especially the fact St.Louis gets some serious winter weather...wow! 😍 Excellent research too!! 🤗 very Interesting history...
Some of those homes on Lafayette Square were vacant for a while and some of them were turned into boarding homes then in the early eighties some people started buying them and rehabbing them and returning them to their former glory a lot of them put more money into it and they will get back one lady told me it was a labor of love
Other than Budweiser and the St. Louis Cardinals I never gave St. Louis a second thought. You've made me a believer, almost, knowing the city has some class by taking care of its heritage.
I love this look into our local history and architecture! If you ever run out of 19th century stuff to talk about, I'd love to hear about the history and architecture of our south city neighborhoods from the turn of the 20th century
I grew up in this neighborhood all the neighborhoods in that area or even on the other side of 44 the McKinley heights area which was a lower-class area has a lot of beautiful brick architectural designs
@@ThisHouse it’s a photo of Louis Stockstrom and “Earnie” Janssen duck hunting on the Missouri River in St. Charles, sometime in the 1930s. Louis grandson gave me the pic. He remembered Janssen, who was good friends with his grandpa.
The image up during the section referring to the Peabody Housing Project is not part of the original project. That section was built within the last 2 to 3 decades. The original "Peabodys" were multi-story towers, at least as I knew them from the '70's on through at least the '90's.
I lived there from 1972 untill 1978 then moved to soulard for ten years the squaere waso the brink of destruction most of what you see now was shells burned by absent t land lards millions have been invested since then
