Chris Naffziger

On St. Louis Patina, Chris Naffziger blogs the city’s beauty and blight

Chris Naffziger stops as we cruise through an area of North St. Louis where, for entire blocks, the city almost disappears. In front of us, on Hebert Street in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood, the crumbling skeleton of a building barely survives, making for a sight you might usually associate with the aftermath of a natural disaster. But instead of a tornado, brick thieves struck the historic four-family house, built in 1895, several years ago.

Chris Bean | Contributing Reporter

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