There is something heartening and encouraging about a mayor, born and raised in North St. Louis, addressing opportunities for progress in that section of the city. This was on full
McLean HS Graduate Wins World Series “Congrats to McLean HS alum Josh Sborz, who threw the final strike to win the World Series with the Texas Rangers…Sborz also pitched for the University of Virginia, where he led the Virginia Cavaliers to the 2015 College World Series title and was named MVP.” [FCPS/Facebook] Politicians Make
What happened to Carr Square?
The neighborhood flourished for a century before modernist city planners replaced it with what they saw as the future.
Carr Square Park, Compton and Dry s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876
Neighborhoods in St. Louis were annihilated in the years after World War II in the name of âprogress.â Iâve looked at Mill Creek in the past, and recently I investigated the vanished Kosciusko neighborhood on the near South Side. But a neighborhood that almost no one remembers today, but yet probably features in the family history of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of St. Louisans and Americans, is the Carr Square neighborhood north of downtown. I touched on the deplorable living conditions of one part of that historic section of St. Louis years ago, as the attention of the plight of the desperately poor living in the rundown tenements north of Washington Avenue came to light to early 20th century reformers. But the entire neighborhood was not