My house is on MacKay Place, just down the block from Lafayette Park. It’s a nice, tree-lined street, perpendicular to Park Avenue. It is near old Route 66, old Union Station, Busch Stadium where the Cardinals play and the Mississippi … Continue reading →
One of the big draws to the House and Garden tour in Lafayette Square are all the antique stalls set up around the Lafayette Park perimeter fence. Here are some sights and interesting old objects I saw while wandering around. … Continue reading →
Lafayette Park forms a beautiful 30 acre anchor for the Lafayette Square neighborhood which surrounds it. Established by city ordinance in 1851, it is the oldest developed urban park in the Louisiana Purchase territory acquired from France in 1803. Here … Continue reading →
Here are some photos from the Lafayette Square House and Garden Tour yesterday. This is the neighborhood where I own my home. The event also continues today. Yesterday the whether was on-and-off nice and heavy thunderstorms, with a tornado warning … Continue reading →