The continued decay and depopulation of North St. Louis City has been of the utmost concern here locally for some time, and is
well-documented on popular local blogs like Built St. Louis. That being said, it is difficult to understand the extent of the problem until you actually hit the streets yourself and witness the amount of decrepit and abandoned historical buildings that abound.
Every time I pass by this church, the gothic
Bethlehem Lutheran Church at Salisbury and North Florissant, it just screams out to me for help. Built in 1895 and just blocks from the rebounding
Hyde Park neighborhood and a stone's throw from
the Arch, it is just one of the many architectural treasures in danger of being lost…
