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• 1909 Laflin Street (Larmer LLC, April 2008, $65,000)

February 2008

Can't comment on the condition of this one; the photographs predate Paul McKee's purchase of the house (you can tell, see, because it's actually been boarded up.) It's another lone survivor in central JeffVanderLou's urban prairieland.

Links:

• 1909 Laflin 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?

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• 1827 Laflin Street (LRA)
  
• 1831 Laflin Street (MLK 3000 LLC, May 2007)

February 2008

In an unusual reversal of fortune, brick rustlers hit the left-hand house, owned by the LRA, instead of the brown-painted Blairmont building on the right.

It's doubly unusual since, with the windows gone and the building standing open and vacant, it's a fairly ripe target for attack.

Links:

• 1831 Laflin at the City Assessor's database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
  Built St. Louis || Ecology of Absence || What Can I Do?