Each year a tally of the city’s endangered sites accompanies the announcement of our Eleven Most Enhanced Award winners. Happily, two buildings have been removed from last year’s roll. Both Kiel Opera House and the Municipal Courts Building seem slated for renovation by Don Breckenridge, an Enhanced Award winner from 2002.

Replacing them on this year’s threatened list are two institutional buildings from the end of the 19th century. Both are located in neighborhoods diminished by their plight.

Named after President Ulysses S. Grant, Grant School has stood at 3009 Pennsylvania since 1893. Designed by architect August H. Kirchner, it received additions by William B. Ittner in 1902 and 1913. Vacant and open to the elements, the decrepit building is a blight on the immediate neighborhood near Gravois.

In the Hyde Park district, Bethlehem Lutheran Church (a City Landmark designated in 1976) seems well on its way to demolition by neglect—a tragic end for the Gothic Revival church designed in 1895 by Louis Wessbecher for a congregation founded in 1849.

• Busch Stadium



• Carr School
  

  1421 Carr Street

• Century Building
  

  across from the Old Post Office
  National Register

• James Clemens House
  

  1849 Cass Avenue
  National Register, City Landmark

• Mullanphy Tenement
  

  2118 Mullanphy Street

• Neighborhood Gardens
  

  1205 N. 7th Street
  National Register, City Landmark

• Hyde Park Turnverein

  1928 Salisbury Street
  Hyde Park Historic District (National Register and City Landmark District)

• Oakherst Place Concrete Block District
  

  near Hamilton and Cass Avenue 

• To our delight, rehab has begun at 5927 West Cabanne Place since we compiled this list in March. One 2004 success story is already assured!