This view of Vandeventer Place (and, at the foreground, 87 Vandeventer) comes from the St. Louis City Development Corporation history site online. The end of Vandeventer on the west often showcased much smaller homes than on the east; this also was the last portion of the private street to be demolished in the 1950s by the city. 87 Vandeventer Place, the house at the corner of Vandeventer Place and Vandeventer Avenue, was built for Irwin Z. Smith, a local investor and real estate tycoon. Smith fathered a veritable tribe of children who went on to do good things in their community; according to various sources, he liked raquetball, hunting, and fishing.87 Vandeventer Place, ca. 1900
This view of Vandeventer Place (and, at the foreground, 87 Vandeventer) comes from the St. Louis City Development Corporation history site online. The end of Vandeventer on the west often showcased much smaller homes than on the east; this also was the last portion of the private street to be demolished in the 1950s by the city. 87 Vandeventer Place, the house at the corner of Vandeventer Place and Vandeventer Avenue, was built for Irwin Z. Smith, a local investor and real estate tycoon. Smith fathered a veritable tribe of children who went on to do good things in their community; according to various sources, he liked raquetball, hunting, and fishing.
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DOUBT OWNER WAS A RACQUETBALL PLAYER. THAT BRANCH OF SPORT IS OF RECENT
ORIGIN . IT BEGAN AS THE GAME OF RACQUETS ( HARD RACQUETS) AND MORPHED TO
SQUASH RACQUETS , USING A SOFTER BALL . THIS HOUSE WAS AT THE VANDEVENTER
ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE GATES . IMAGE WAS PROBABLY TAKEN FROM
THE OLD WEST END HOTEL ( WEST END WAITERS' CLUB IN LATER YEARS ), ACROSS THE
STREET .
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