Daily Dose of Blairmont 76

• 2916 Gamble Street (N & G Ventures LLC, May 2005)

May 2008

Vacancy and a Permastone slipcover can't hide the urbanity of this massive mountain of house. Made for a narrow urban lot, it speaks to a time when this neighborhood was valued enough to be built tall and thick.





Today it stands almost alone on its block, facing a neighborhood park heavily used by local teens. It's been vacant since 2000. But just imagine when that streetwall was complete, when long-vanished neighbors stood shoulder-to-shoulder. What a sight it must have been!

Links:

• 2916 Gamble at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
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