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Old North St. Louis Information
Old North St. Louis is a neighborhood just north of the downtown area of St.
Louis, Missouri. Known for the landmark Crown Candy Kitchen, historic 19th
century brick homes, and its award-winning community gardens, Old North St.
Louis is home to a diverse and active community. The neighborhood now known as
Old North St. Louis was established as the independent village of North St.
Louis in 1816 and was annexed by the City of St. Louis in 1841. After many
generations as a very densely populated neighborhood, Old North St. Louis
experienced several decades of population losses and deterioration of the
community's housing stock. Over the past several years, however, the community
has started to experience a dramatic revitalization led by the community-based
Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, a non-profit organization. ONSLRG pursues
a mission of restoring and developing the physical and social dimensions of the
Old North St. Louis neighborhood in a manner that respects the neighborhood's
historic, cultural and urban character.
In the portion of the neighborhood north of St. Louis Avenue, dozens of homes
have been rehabbed by individuals and families over the past 25 years. Along
North Market Street and one block to the south along Monroe Avenue, new homes
are being built and large, formerly crumbling historic buildings are being
rehabbed as affordable apartments. In this area, the Old North St. Louis
Restoration Group and its development partner, the Regional Housing & Community
Development Alliance, have been coordinating a 30-acre redevelopment that will
include more than 100 new, historically sensitive homes, alongside dozens of
rehabilitated historic buildings.
The neighborhood is also home to several churches, such as Fourth Baptist
Church, Greater Leonard Missionary Baptist, True Gospel Temple, and Parrish
Temple CME; and schools, including Ames Visual and Performing Arts magnet
school, Webster Middle School, and Confluence Academy charter school; non-profit
agencies such as the 100+ year old Grace Hill Settlement House, The Haven of
Grace, the Urban Studio[5], Places for People, and Stepping Into the Light; and
a variety of businesses, including the 130-year-old Marx Hardware, one of the
oldest family-owned hardware stores in the U.S.