Thank you! Nathan greatly appreciated your compliment! We would love to collaborate with you sometime!

Great job Nathan! ((Hi Ryan 🐝...lol..I was just thinking about you!) Thank you BOTH for bring us great history info on St. Louis & surrounding areas!

Nice work need more along are St Louis 🤔 history

I love your videos. I wish they were longer!! 👍

Thank you could you tell me 7 major tour site that saint louis has to offer that one would love to see & experience to come here(clubs, parks, sites.etc;🤔🤔)

Sorry to hear about that happening to your childhood home.

It was destroyed by lack of ideas and wicked divisive political agenda

Sierra, thank you for sharing your stories. I just eat that stuff up! I appreciate you.

I hate that that happened to your childhood home. I hate how downhill our city has gone. The history is getting destroyed.

That’s crazy we also grew up on St. Louis Ave on the other side of Grand.

It is not the city’s “job” to preserve these homes. It is the homeowner’s responsibility to apply for historical preservation, placards, etc.

When i was a kid in the 90's, downtown saint louis was riddled with empty derelict buildings. Never verified, but was told historical society prevented them from being torn down- BUT did nothing to take care of them. The first time i visited detroit in 2009- a cab driver was showing me derelict buildings that couldn't be torn down due to historical society. Both cities since have torn a lot of that down and built new buildings that now provide attractions and income/jobs. Point of the comment is if there's a historical society stopping something from being torn down, but doing nothing to take care of those same buildings- is that really a good thing?

@@susankrouse6844 That's not the kind of thinking that more developed countries follow (like Western Europe, Canada, etc. Historic preservation is highly regulated in places that have much higher quality of life.

@@susankrouse6844some of the buildings in the city are abandoned and are not maintained because the owners have died. The city should absolutely step in and save them. They could never be built today so it’s a horrible loss once they are gone.

@@susankrouse6844 We have Americans all over our preserved buildings at the moment And the reason we have so many preserved buildings is because of the British national trust - you should get your equivalent - the American national trust would save what’s left and save you lot spending all your hard earned dollars looking at ours 😂

We totally agree!

So does Detroit. If it wasn't for its downfall, it would be one of the largest historical cities in the country. Charleston, SC is one of the largest and best. And Santa Fe, NM is awesome and the oldest by far, but just not nearly as large. But St. Louis is great too. It's sad that lots of historical homes in large cities are falling apart and knocked down because theres no one to protect or save and fix them. Our country will eventually need to do a complete overhaul of our infrastructure. We are the most wealthy country but have the worst old and aging infrastructure. Its embarrassing. But the 1% don't care enough about our country as long as they can live somewhere nice and far away from bad neighborhoods and ignore the problem. Older generations had the best of America when corporations were located in the U.S. and actually paid tax. Now there are a lot less jobs and huge corporations give all their money and jobs to China and other poor countries. America will never be the same as the past with the status quo. We make less and pay more. Home ownership is getting harder for all Americans. Less generational wealth.

Its Hodiamont this is where I'm from

@@fmglocksmith3901 ok I missed the A lol I lived there for years! And loved it, still do.

Ohh absolutley yes it does, as a little girl I've always admire how beautiful it is.

We love the neighborhoods of St. Louis and the architectural history that comes with them!

Ohh absolutley awesome, beautiful I've always admire them

What an honor! We really hope to be able to see the interiors some day

Be part of the solution :) the aggregate of small investments made by many st Louisans over time will tower over any project city hall could fund

That sounds terrifying, glad that you and your family were okay. Thank you for sharing your memory with us.

I remember my father telling me about that tornado he remembered because it was unusual for a tornado to strike so close to the city....

Ohh wow,I grew up north mkt.an Hogan area

Great story. I just love hearing from firsthand accounts.

I'm here at the Tower Grove East area. I never knew there was a tornado that hit Stl city, in that area. Thanks for information.

I went to Wyman also 😊

Well-done video! Interesting and informative.

Thanks for watching!!

There is a really fun story about that house. The studio, MGM built the house and street on a studio back lot for the movie. However, the house and rest of the set were torn down in the 1970’s. The fictional neighborhood was based on the real neighborhood in St Louis named Lafayette Square. Lafayette Square is still standing today and is one of the most grand and well preserved Victorian Era neighborhoods that still exists to this day.

@@ThisHouse Thanks! I'm google-earthing the area.

I did that also. It was disappointing to see the reality of the street.

Kensington is the street that the author of Meet Me In St. Louis lived on at one point way back in the day.

@@ThisHouse As St. Louis suffered from vast urban blight and flight of the affluent to the suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s, city officials offered a program to help preserve Lafayette Square (and other selected historical homes which were in decay and disappearing quickly). Lafayette Square had been hit by a tornado as well, but many years earlier--maybe 1927 if memory serves. The city's program sold buyers abandoned grand homes for $1. The stipulations were the owners had to occupy and be actively restoring the home for at least two years (or maybe it was three). This program probably saved many, many old Victorian grand homes in Lafayette Square (Lafayette Park and adjacent streets for the most part). Owners gave tours of their renovation projects and told of some of the incredible hard work and money they had to put in to the homes to get them back to any semblance of grandeur. Many had tornado damage to the top floors, and previous owners simply sealed off the top floors to avoid having to make repairs. Some had been turned into cheap apartment houses and probably worse. For a city with absolutely tons of social and political problems, this was one beneficial socio-economic program. Don't know if the city kept this concept going indefinitely. It sure should have. St. Louis Place Park, Hyde Park and many neighborhoods in the Central West End are other examples of fantastic St. Louis architecture which largely disappear if some subsidy were not provided. As an example of the worst case scenario in St. Louis, research what happened to Vandeventer Place.

We are so glad that you appreciated our efforts in compiling the history for this video, thank you for watching!

Yes absolutley enjoy your channel alot,thank you do you.🙏🙏❤

Thank you for subscribing! I'm glad that you enjoy the beautiful architecture here, cheers!

Thank you so much for sharing, how fascinating! We are so glad that you are enjoying our videos, stay tuned as we travel neighborhood to neighborhood, house to house uncovering our city's history. -Ken

Thats a rich st. Louis family history to be proud of. My great grandmother was a single mother and a hard worker. She was also the first woman to become a taxi driver in the city of st.louis. From hearing family stories, I heard that she was a fiesty and tough woman who can hold her own. She was proud to be the first female taxi driver in her favorite city her hometown as well. Good ole St. Louis. Which is where she proudly raised her family on the south part of the city. Near Cherokee street. Which later became the little Mexico of st. Louis. Where you can shop locally for mexican goods and a fresh hot plate of some fresh Mexican food. Tacos isnt the only thing we're good for!!!

@@soniajerez8963 oh wow!!!!!! I’m gonna check that area on my hopefully soon next visit!

@@soniajerez8963 I really think that’s fabulous!

St. Louis is definitely one of those interesting cities. I recommend looking up my hometown area within Philadelphia and cape May NJ also. So much beautiful architecture .

Glad you enjoyed it!

We are so glad that you enjoyed it! Your goal sounds fascinating and we hope you get there! Who knows, maybe one day we will tour a house where you are acting in period costume? Thanks for watching!

Thank you for the information!

Technically. The browns where cardinals in then perfectos then cardinals n orioles took over the browns name. N they r having a series as we speak game 3 is tomorrow .

Nathan knows so much about these awesome neighborhoods!

@@st.louishistoryandarchitec8067 just went to your You a tube channel, but there weren’t any videos. Are you on Facebook and Instagram?

It's our pleasure! We love this city and its architecture!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

Are you talking about the union busters that sold our industries out to China

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Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

Thankyou for providing this information!

Then why would the MLB website say that the Cardinals used to be the Browns, then the Perfectos, then the Cardinals? You would think of all people to know the official history, the MLB would probably be in the top choices, right?

The St Louis Cardinals were originally called the St Louis Brown Stockings in 1882, the Browns from 1883-1898, the Perfectos in 1899 and finally the Cardinals in 1900. In 1901 the American League Milwaukee Brewers came to St Louis where they then became the St Louis Browns and played here until 1953 when they moved to Baltimore and became the Baltimore Orioles. For those 52 years St Louis had two teams.

@@ericaevans8247 Someone at Major League Baseball doesn't know his facts. Here's a dose of reality. The St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns were two separate teams. In fact, they squared off against each other in the 1944 World Series while the war was going on. The Browns left town because they didn't like playing second fiddle to the Cardinals, especially as they played in the same ballpark. After the 1953 season, they moved to Baltimore, renamed themselves the Orioles, moved into a new facility (Memorial Stadium), and never looked back.

How wonderful!

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for watching, we are glad that you are enjoying them!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this video!

Thank you for that bit of info, very fascinating!

Before the browns baseball club started the Cardinals were known as the st.louis browns

@@russellroberts4852 Technically they were the St. Louis Perfectos, where the St. Louis Brown Stockings were a team in the 19th century that were a predecessor, but not directly connected to the Cardinals' history.

Thank you! Cheers!

Glad you enjoyed it! We have a handful of episodes of Nathan's Neighborhood History on our channel! So far he has covered: St. Louis Place, Soulard, Benton Park, and Lasalle Park!

@@ThisHouse It appears I now have two new channels to watch. I'll certainly watch all videos on both. Thank you.

@@st.louishistoryandarchitec8067 Thank you Nathan. I'll go check it out!!!

Thanks for watching!

What’s your point?

You should check out our last video, We explore the 2nd Empire Strikes Backs home that was built in 1890 in the same area!

@@ThisHouse I saw that, also. That is one motivated owner! I was born in St Louis, reared on the north side. Even as a child I appreciated the rich architectural heritage of the city. Left there in 1975; no close family there any more. Still have affection for the land of my birth. Thank you for your work!

Thanks for watching, We will continue to feature the architecture in St. Louis!

Thanks for sharing! We hope that those mansions will remain for many more generations to enjoy.

Welcome back! Glad you enjoyed this tour!

Funny you should mention that. We have been planning a video about the schools designed by William B. Ittner. Stay tuned!

We are glad that you enjoyed this video, thank you for watching! We are working on a compiling images from that neighborhood. As soon as we have about 30 historic images we will create a short video to showcase the architecture.

@@ThisHouse about 35 years ago a friend of ours bought 1922 St Louis Avenue intending to rehabilitate it and restore it. The lady who was helping restore St Louis place or Avenue at the time was so well known in the neighborhood and she helped people. o u r friend gave up trying to rehab the house I think. It was such a shame. I remember it as very beautiful. If you run across any pictures of it in its Heyday I would really appreciate it if you could show them. Many years later that whole block was razed.

About forty years ago my father bought a house on St Louis Ave in the 2200 block. It was restored beautifully its has fifteen rooms six fireplaces and three stairscases . Beautifully maintained pocket door made of mahogany .The stairscases are hand crafted and carved . It was build 1894. My sister still lives there to this day. Its an amazing house .

Thanks for watching! Nathan knows so much about these neighborhoods! He has done a handful of these kind of videos on our channel!

@@ThisHouse is Nathan an historian?

@@justlive112 He is! And a fantastic one at that! :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@ThisHouse 💯❗️

Thanks for watching!

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying our videos, cheers!

That's so fascinating, thanks for sharing!

Hopefully what is left can be saved.

@@ThisHouse sure hope so.. Used to walk St. louis avenue when going to 14th street (Crown Candy). Was impressed by most of the houses, had NO idea of their history. Should have had someone back then teaching us kids.

It really is! Even the area featured in this video has changed quite a bit since we premiered it. There are new homes, completed restorations, and the NGA site nearing completion. Give it 5 years and the scenes from this video will seem like they occurred in an alternate reality. It really is incredible how quickly the area is being revitalized.

U mean the city of STL🤔🙄🤦🏿Lol Missouri is the state sweetheart😏🍵

Our pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Had a buddy who lived at St. Louis Place Park in the 1970s and 1980s. I moved away, so I don't know if his family still owns the grand old home. His father was an immigrant from Eastern Europe and bought the home for not much money because the area was so blighted and dangerous--no ordinary family would have lived in that neighborhood and maintained the home. The infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project (opened in the mid-50s) was just a few blocks away, and conditions were so bad there in less than a generation that the entire complex had been dynamited and town down by 1976. But the buddy's father was a tough goat from Eastern Europe and stood up to the thugs in the neighborhood. The man commanded a lot of respect.