Photo by Jane DiCampo Southwest Garden was first visited by Photo Flood STL on April 13, 2019. The article for that flood can be found at https://www.photofloodstl.org/photo-flood-79-southwest-garden/ Photo by Mike Matney The boundaries of the neighborhood are complicated; bound by I-44 to the northeast, Missouri Botanical Gardens and Tower...
Photo by Ann Yeoman Following up the Compton Heights flood of December Photo Flood headed west across Grand Boulevard to visit the Shaw neighborhood. The first flood there was back on September 9th, 2018. For this trip we met at the Fiddlehead Fern Cafe. The weather was not great...
Photo by Mike Matney Dominated by its magnificent water tower Compton Heights is one of the earliest examples of a planned residential development of the 19th Century in the United States. The neighborhood was first visited by Photo Flood STL back on June 16th, 2016. The article for that visit...
Photo by Jennifer Smith The city of Maplewood sits along the western border of St. Louis and is part of St. Louis County. The history of the Maplewood dates to the 1800s and includes ties with the Chouteau family known for their role in St. Louis history. A...
Photo by Joe Rakers The weather this year for Paint Louis 2025 was perfect. It wasn’t too hot and the humidity was tolerable for the first time in years. The 3 day event, which happens on Labor Day weekend was in full swing this year. It is the largest...
Photo by Dennis Daugherty The first time that Photo Flood STL visited Dutchtown it was in January 2016. Many of the participants in this flood weren’t even members of the group then. For some this was the first time being in the neighborhood. The original article on the neighborhood...
Photo by Dennis Daugherty Forest Park Southeast was first visited by Photo Flood St. Louis just over ten years ago in March 2015, which was flood 32. The northwest corner of the neighborhood “touches” Forest Park, thus where its name comes from. Photo by Anna Ratzlaff Forest Park Southeast...
photo by RJ Wilner Carondelet Park is the main recreational focal point for those neighborhoods located in the far south of St. Louis City, principally Bevo Mill, Holly Hills, Carondelet, The Patch, and Boulevard Heights. On our last visit (for Photo Flood 9), improvements to the Park were underway thanks...
photo by Mike Matney The Village of Elsah was founded in 1853 when a local quarry operator incentivized the purchase of stones by giving away land. Since then, the Village has seen ups and downs in its population, but remains one of the best preserved collections of 19th Century...
photo by Sue Rakers St. Louis’ Eads Bridge is among the most iconic structures of the city. As the world’s first steel, arch bridge, Eads impresses in both form and function (though it was not first, it is now the oldest bridge across the Mississippi River). In 2024, the...
Photo Flood Saint Louis has an enormous amount of pride for St. Louis. We are very interested in improving the perception of STL, which we do by emphasizing what makes each neighborhood that we photograph, and every organization that we partner with, special. The opportunity to share what we love about the city is what brings us together each month, when we invade parts of town to record it in a surge of imagery.
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