Maplewood History: For Sale – A Painted Photograph of Gertrude Harper
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Now for something completely different.
Kitchen Conservatory coming to Brentwood
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The business offering cooking classes from beginner to gourmet, Kitchen Conservatory, is moving from Clayton to a new location in Brentwood on Manchester Road — the location of the now demolished Brentwood Lanes and the smaller contiguous lot to the west.
Maplewood History: Previous Unseen Images of Maplewood’s Second High School
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More stunning photos from the collection of Laura Varilek
Maplewood History: Exceedingly Rare Images Discovered in the Varilek Collection
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We’ve struck another vein of gold in the mountain of historic Maplewood photographs.
Maplewood History: 7309 Maple Avenue
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Let’s try this again. The first post has evaporated somehow. I’m thankful that it was just this one. Most of my posts I have copied and pasted into PDFs but I am way behind. Hopefully having to redo this one will inspire me to keep up with the task.
For the record: council member resigns, chief of police named
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Maplewood city council member, Shana Jones announced on Facebook, Sept. 23, that she was stepping down from the council.
Maplewood History: Happy Halloween
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In my neighborhood, the Shields subdivision in south Maplewood, a couple of 12 foot tall skeletons have been up for quite awhile now. They preceded the yard inflatables. Not sure why. They seem to be the cutting edge in Halloween decorations this year. Perhaps the owners just want them to get maximum air time?
AT&T internet down for a week or more in a section of Maplewood, resident reports
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A Maplewood resident reports that around 9:30 Wednesday morning a street crew at Piccadilly Avenue and Oxford Boulevard chopped through a large bundle of fiber optic cable providing Internet service for AT&T customers.
Former Brentwood mayor supports naming new street after founding family
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Brentwood resident Barry Williams recently began promoting the naming of a new street in Brentwood after the city’s founder Thomas Madden. The street will be the entrance to the new Brentwood Park, south of Manchester in the area currently being developed.
Maplewood History: Built Plain or Became Plain Over Time? The Maplewood Bank
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In my last post, I reprinted an email from reader Melissa in which she posed the question: Were our buildings “built plain or became plain over time? I gave her four examples which you can review here.
Maplewood History: Built Plain or Became Plain Over Time?
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Recently I received the following email from a reader that started me thinking about the disappeared and still disappearing architectural details that have occupied much of my time for the last decade-and-a-half.