Most Endangered Places now online

Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The City Beat

Landmarks Association’s 2008 Eleven Most Endangered Places list is now online:

http://www.landmarks-stl.org/enhanced_and_endangered/2008_most_endangered

These are the sites held over from last year’s list:

  • Andrew Einstmann House, 2347 Virginia Avenue
  • Mullanphy Emigrant Home, 1609 N. 14th Street
  • Mullanphy Tenement, 2118 Mullanphy Street
  • James Clemens, Jr. House, 1849 Cass Avenue
  • Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 2153 Salisbury Street
  • Wellston Station, 6101 Martin Luther King Drive
  • Carr School, 1421 Carr Street

And here are the sites new this year:

  • San Luis Apartments, 4483 Lindell Boulevard
  • House at 1930 St. Louis Avenue
  • Commercial Buidling at 5286 Page Boulevard
  • Shriners Hospital, 700 S. Euclid Avenue
  • Central Institute for the Deaf, 909 S. Taylor Avenue

Please join us is helping to save these fine buildings. If you live in the same ward as one of the sites, write your alderperson and urge them to pledge to oppose demolition and work to find a developer. Contact Landmarks to get more details about the struggles to save these eleven (actually twelve) sites.

Michael Allen
Assistant Director
Landmarks Association of St. Louis
www.landmarks-stl.org

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3 Comments

flyover

Thursday, 14th August 2008 at 11:17 pm
 

Some months ago, I toured the new housing development at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and someone asked about the old church. We were told the church is beyond saving. It has no roof. Thieves have stripped it bare and it is about to fall down. The person said the city wants to turn it into some kind of nightclub or concert hall, I don’t remember. The small congregation there has moved into smaller quarters in the still servicable old school building next door. They do not have the money to repair the church and the city won’t let them tear it down. We were told, in addition to being structurally gone, the church was an artifact of St. Louis 100 years ago when people walked everywhere. There is no parking to support a church of that size and it would take a huge congregation to support it. . This is an example of the overzealous behavior of this group. They ought to let them tear it down and get rid of a health and safety hazard and allow something else to be built on the site. Unless the city wants to fund the rehab of the building that would cost many millions, it is just going to fall down one day during a good storm.

Jackson

Saturday, 16th August 2008 at 3:31 pm
 

“This is an example of the overzealous behavior of this group. They ought to let them tear it down and get rid of a health and safety hazard and allow something else to be built on the site.”

Which group? Landmarks has no legal power. What do you mean “let them”? It’s a free country, and BLC can apply for a demolition permit any day they want. They can go through the process, prove their case and get a permit. What they are not owed is free money for the demolition.

By the way, the buidling has strong walls and a roof. It’s not about to fall down. Ever seen the actual church? The line you got was self-serving horseshit. It’s one thing to want demolition, but it’s another to just make crap up.

flyover

Sunday, 24th August 2008 at 11:28 am
 

The only crap here is you. The city has denied them permission on numerous occasions. They have not asked the City for a dime for demolition. Someone in city government actually thinks it is going to be a Country and Western concert hall.

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