Lafayette Square 🏘️

A tidy little compendium of how Lafayette Square streets got their names.

Below is a subset from a well-researched history of street names for the City of St Louis. Every name tells a story, and ours in Lafayette Square are no exception. Please note our thanks at the bottom, as a lot of good work went into this compilation. ALBION PLACE (E-W). Platted in Funkhouser's Lafayette Park [...]

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Today’s feature is a recently discovered group of about 45 images of Lafayette Park, taken sometime after the great tornado of 1896. Note the small trees reestablishing the park canopy.…

2020: Lafayette Park Ferns - Of Fiddleheads and Rabbit Holes We live in a neighborhood steeped in its own history. The times change fast, but it’s comforting to consider the constants around us. Lafayette Park holds a big bouquet of them. Walking around the grotto, with its pond, bridge and drusy rock accents, notice the [...]

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2020: Lafayette Park Ferns – Of Fiddleheads and Rabbit Holes We live in a neighborhood steeped in its own history. The times change fast, but it’s comforting to consider the…

New Year’s Resolutions - lose weight, stop smoking, save money. Does anyone actually keep these resolutions? According to Forbes, less than 25% keep their resolutions after 30 days and only 8% actually accomplish them. These are not great odds.  As I mentioned in my last post, I’m not one for decorum, pomp and circumstance. But [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions – lose weight, stop smoking, save money. Does anyone actually keep these resolutions? According to Forbes, less than 25% keep their resolutions after 30 days and only…

I don’t decorate for the holidays. There. I said it.  I know it’s the most wonderful time of the year and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and all, but when it comes to my own decorations, I’m admittedly kind of a Scrooge.  Let’s get a few things out of the way first: [...]

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I don’t decorate for the holidays. There. I said it.  I know it’s the most wonderful time of the year and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and…

An LPC Presentation; November 14, 3:00 pm The Lafayette Park Conservancy presents A History of the Lafayette Park Fence in its autumn speaker series; Sunday, October 14, 2021 at the…

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Lafayette Square is conveniently located. You can reach three different interstate highways, headed to who-knows-where, within a couple of minutes. If you want to access I-44 West, about 200 feet…

Lafayette Square is conveniently located. You can reach three different interstate highways, headed to who-knows-where, within a couple of minutes. If you want to access I-44 West, about 200 feet from the on-ramp to I-55 South, hang a turn just past the corner of 18th Street and Lafayette Avenue. It swings around this building: 1800 [...]

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The silence was deafening in 2020. We all felt it and knew why, but, having boomeranged back to St. Louis after being gone for four years, moving back into the Lafayette Square neighborhood just didn't have the same vibe without the beloved Saturday night concerts in the park. Heading into the spring, the question of [...]

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The silence was deafening in 2020. We all felt it and knew why, but, having boomeranged back to St. Louis after being gone for four years, moving back into the…

It's another sign of the times of pre-COVID life returning - the Tour de Lafayette returns on September 3, serving as the unofficial end of summer, the beginning of Labor Day weekend, and kicking off the annual Gateway Cup Bike Races. The Gateway Cup is a four-day race spanning four of St. Louis' historic neighborhoods, [...]

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It’s another sign of the times of pre-COVID life returning – the Tour de Lafayette returns on September 3, serving as the unofficial end of summer, the beginning of Labor…

The New York Times of May 27, 2021 has a fascinating study into the long term social and economic costs of America’s drive to accommodate the automobile after World War…

1971 Plan Commission cover The New York Times of May 27, 2021 has a fascinating study into the long term social and economic costs of America’s drive to accommodate the automobile after World War II. It wasn’t just St. Louis whose ethnic enclaves were carved up by eminent domain and big money. The Times points [...]

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An officially sanctioned “black hip session” seemed unlikely in Lafayette Park during the summer of 1968, but it happened. There have been books written about the single year significance of…

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As the Google Doodle of the day below reminds us, this is Earth Week and Thursday was Earth Day (40th in all, I think.) Lafayette Park celebrated the planting of…

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