Built St. Louis
The North Side: St. Louis Place

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This section of the city is one of the most devastated. Vast tracts of land completely empty; just south of Cass Avenue the street grid itself no longer exists -- cleared for the long-since demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing projects.

But where the buildings do survive, very often they're quite nice. St. Louis Avenue is lined with numerous fine houses, and the surviving vernacular houses have a uniform brick construction and appearance.

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