Ives House
Across a vacant storage lot is the Ives House, built as home to the first dean of Washington University's art and architecture school and one of the city art museum's founders. It is now owned by a charitable organization.

The photograph shows not only the house but the type of degraded use that has encroached on it and its neighbors over the years.

Culver House
Across the street from Stockton House (and behind a sculpture and planter designed by Medler) stands a vast field of asphalt, laid out in service of nearby Powell Symphony Hall. Isolated and overpowered by its enormous neighbor, a house originally built in 1890 as the Culver mansion has somehow managed to survive in the shadow of the symphony building.

The Culver house is now home to the Portfolio Gallery and Education Center, a cener for African-American art.

As Queen Anne houses tend to do, this one has lost whatever dome or conical roof once capped its corner turret. The turret has also visibly lost sections of ornamentation, as well as having its windows infilled with glass block. Nonetheless, it is occupied, maintained, and constitutes a welcome relief amid a landscape where survivors have become more of an exception than the rule.

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Image courtesy of Kevin Kieffer.