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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Found: McKinley Heights Flounder


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Located on the 2200 block of Charless in McKinley Heights.



Sadly, there used to be two side-by-side flounders on this block, a rare housing type found, for the most part, only in St. Louis and a handful of other cities. As you can see, it is characterized by a simple facade and a steep side roof pitch that translates to half of a second story. This is from the McKinley Fox National Register District nomination, circa 1984:



From McKinley Heights



There was another flounder on the 2200 block of Gaine, one block north of the Charless examples. It is now a vacant lot. It is pictured below (again from the McKinley Fox National Register nomination, again Circa 1984):




From McKinley Heights


For more information on St. Louis flounders, see Michael Allen's Ecology of Absence.

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