ecology of absence

Neighborhood Gardens Apartments
 


Condition of the apartments on April 2, 2005. Photograph by Michael R. Allen.

LOCATION: Bounded by Biddle, Seventh, O'Fallon and Eighth streets; Columbus Square; St. Louis, Missouri
DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 1935
ARCHITECTS: Hoener, Baum and Froese
DATES OF ABANDONMENT 1990 - 2005
OWNERS: Neighborhood Association (1935 - ?); City of St. Louis (1990 - 2005); Spanish Lake Development Company (2005 -)

Photographs
Images of the apartment buildings before renovation.

Open House
Images of the restored apartment buildings, October 2006.

Neighborhood Gardens and the Perils of Modernism
Essay by Michael R. Allen

Memories
by Kathy Davis, who grew up here.

Rules & Regulations
Rules of a lease at Neighborhood Gardens, circa 1938.


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