Daily Dose of Blairmont 83

• 2615 Howard Street (VHS Partners LLC, August 2005, $25,000)

A lovely little house, with tidy window awnings and decorative scribing around the windows.

May 2008

This is the "wasteland" that Paul McKee wants to "save". This is the "uninhabited urban ruin" that "needs" to be emptied out.


This is the architecture that's not worth fighting for.




Yeah, I don't buy it either.

For the record, the last photo contains three owner-occupant houses and a small church. So who is it exactly that needs to be run out of the neighborhood -- the neighbors, or Blairmont?

Links:

• 2615 Howard at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
  Built St. Louis || Ecology of Absence || What Can I Do?