Daily Dose of Blairmont 121

Not everything bought up by Blairmont is an architectural treasure; some are just plain old houses, inhabited by, and often belonging to, ordinary people. Here on the 2500 block of Benton Street, for example, Paul McKee's companies have been systematically snapping up a series of 1960s infill houses.

• 2541 Benton Street (VHS Partners LLC, November 2005, $30,000)

May 2008

• 2537 Benton Street (MLK 3000 LLC, October 2006, $72,000)
  
• 2535 Benton Street (VHS Partners LLC, November 2005, $30,000)

• 2525 Benton Street (privately owned)
  
• 2521 Benton Street (owner occupied)
  
• 2519 Benton Street (Sheridan Place LLC, November 2006, $55,000)
  
• 2517 Benton Street (privately owned)

2519, the Blairmont property, is at left.

Price bounce: 2537 sold in August 2006 for $60,000, then again in October for $72,000.

Links:

• 2541 Benton at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
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