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
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Three new projects meant to enhance New Bern’s stormwater drainage efficiency have been approved by the Board of Aldermen. The projects will affect the Duffyfield area as well as the North Glenburnie, Renny s Creek, Jack Smith Creek and downtown drainage basins.
The board approved a lease agreement with the North Carolina Railroad Company and Norfolk Southern Railway Company for construction related to the Duffyfield Wetlands Project. Phase 1 of the project calls for a discharge pipe under the railroad tracks located off of East Rose Street to be enlarged from four inches to 12 inches.
One of the first projects completed by the City of New Bern’s newly formed Stormwater Maintenance Division was improvements to the stormwater pond located on Biddle Street, in the Duffyfield neighborhood. City staff reconstructed the stormwater pond and enlarged it to four times its original size.