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• 2504 North Market Street (Dodier Investors LLC, October 2006, $34,800)

May 2008

Blairmont's got the red-painted house, second from the left. To the left: an absentee landlord. To the right: three owner-occupants in a row.

Price bounce: April, sold in foreclosure, $41K. June, sold again, $29K. October, sold to Blairmont, $35K.

Links:

• 2504 North Market 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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Left and right:
• 2548 North Market Street (N & G Ventures LLC, May 2006, $95,000)
  
• 2552 North Market Street (N & G Ventures LLC, November 2005, $40,000)

May 2008

On the western border of St. Louis Place stands this pair of brick houses, with frame construction behind. The western one is particularly odd, with a rather tiny brick portion butting up to a gabled frame portion in back.




Both were occupied just a few short years ago, but under Blairmont's ownership, the vacant building reports have started rolling in.


June 2002 - Photograph by Kevin Kieffer

June 2002 - Photograph by Kevin Kieffer

Links:

• 2548 North Market 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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• 2517 North Market Street, built 1883 (MLK 3000 LLC, June 2007)
  
• 2519-2525 North Market Street, built 1893 (N & G Ventures, January 2006)

November 2007

Blairmont owns this little two-story house on North Market.



Some strange business in the city database has it owned by "Kep-Co Redevelopment Corp.", a business which dissolved years ago, "care of N & G Properties". This is mostly likely just a record keeping error.

This massive, grand block is a beautiful piece of work, with a forceful scale and detailing to match. It'd be painful to watch it fall as so many Blairmont properties have.

Another Blairmont property on the same block was destroyed in 2006.

Links:

• 2517 North Market 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?

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• 2507 North Market Street (Sheridan Place LLC, January 2007)

November 2007

It's an urban house, but it seems comfortable surrounded by the trees that have grown up on the empty lots around it. Much of this western St. Louis Place block survives, but is similarly threatened by Blairmont ownership.

It sports a beautiful cornice, with corbeled brick brackets and a crenelated roofline.

The house was sufficiently modernized to have a DirectTV satellite dish mounted out front.

Links:

• 2507 North Market at the City Assessor's database
  
• Aerial view at Maps.Live.com.
  
• More on Blairmont:
  Built St. Louis || Ecology of Absence || What Can I Do?

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• 2537-2539 North Market Street

July 30, 2006

Purchased by "VHS Partners LLC" in August 2005. Torn apart by brick thieves and reduced to a dangerous ruin less than a year later.





And a beautiful contributer to the historic architecture of its neighborhood.

Am I the only one who senses a trend here?

Links:

• 2537 North Market at the City Assessor's database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont