St. Aloysius, The Hill

St. Aloysius Catholic Church is currently being demolished 1 block away from my place in South St. Louis. Developers have bought up the valuable property and are turning the now abandoned church and school into 25 up scale houses.

I had a chance to go and snap a few shots of the demolition before it was no more. I think you can really appreciate the quality of the brick work especially when it's in these stages, the various layers exposed showing the internal structure.



I recenly went back to check it out. All that was left was the front vestibule and the steeple. Above the door that was the entrance to the church that now opens into a rubble filled pit, a sign reads "Peace to all who enter here." Then someone has humorously inscribed, "...and exit."