The Official Newsletter of the Southampton Neighborhood Association • September 2007

Next Southampton Neighborhood SNA to Sponsor Progressive Association Meetings Yard/Garage Sale Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Saturday, September 29 Time: 7:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served The Southampton Neighborhood Association is organizing and sponsoring another Progressive Yard/Garage Sale this fall Location: Southampton Presbyterian Church on Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lower level gymnasium 4716 Macklind Avenue (at Nottingham) If you are interested in having a yard or garage sale at your SNA Officers, Board Members residence, you may sign up by completing the registration form in this newsletter. The $10 registration fee is a deal as it includes advertising in the Post-Dispatch, Journal and online, placement of a sale & City Officials sign with balloons in your yard, and inclusion of your address on the map. All you have to do is display and mark Chad Stockel, President your items! This day also offers an excellent opportunity to find some real bargains right in the neighborhood. 752-9972 • [email protected] Maps to the homes with sales will be sold for $2 beginning at 7:30 a.m. the day of the sale near the corner of Macklind and Nottingham Avenues. Ron Coleman, Vice President & Newsletter Editor 832-3872 • [email protected] In the past we have had more than fifty houses participate by holding sales and several hundred sale-shoppers Andrew Barrett, Treasurer coming through the neighborhood. This is also a fundraiser for the SNA and allows us the opportunity to show 351-6343 • [email protected] off our neighborhood. For more information please contact Michele Cygan at 517-8679 or email snagaragesale@ Marie Robinson, Secretary gmail.com. We hope you will participate as either a seller or shopper! 667-5268 • [email protected] Pat Theodore, Chris Nitzsche, Block Captain Co-Chairs 352-7137 • [email protected] 448-1138 • [email protected] Are You As Smart as You Look? Stephen Gregali, 14th Ward Alderman (includes Macklind to Kingshighway) Macklind Business Districts holds Trivia Night Fundraiser 622-3287 • [email protected]

Donna Baringer, 16th Ward Alderman The Board of Directors of the Macklind Business District is hard at work planning a Trivia Night fundraising (includes Macklind to Hampton) 641-8377 • [email protected] event to be held Saturday, October 13, 2007 at the new Parish Center at Our Lady of Sorrows Church at South Kingshighway and Rhodes. Doors open at 6 p.m. and Trivia play will be from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sandy Colvin, The proceeds from this fundraiser will go to various improvements and initiatives 14th Ward Neighborhood Stabilization Off icer slated for the Macklind Business District in 2007 and 2008. 613-3169 • [email protected] DeAnna Murphy, If you haven’t been to a trivia night before, you will definitely want to come to 16th Ward Neighborhood Stabilization Off icer this one! The way it works is that tables of eight form a team and your table 589-8161 • [email protected] submits its answers to unique trivia questions during rounds of questions. Your Don Veile, Public Affairs Off icer table answer sheet is scored after every round and the table with the most points St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department at the end of the evening wins. You are encouraged to form table teams with 444-0168 • [email protected] friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members, bring food to share with your table-mates and decorate your tables.

JOIN THE SNA! YOUR Tables of eight are on sale for $200 or $25 per person. Admission to this fundraiser includes soft drinks, beer, MEMBERSHIP MATTERS wine, and snacks plus some outrageous trivia. Prizes for First, Second and Third Place winning tables and “Best Join or renew your membership to the Southampton Decorated” table will be provided. Rumor has it that Mr. Pete Manzo, of Manzo’s Italian sausage fame, will be Neighborhood Association. Simply mail this form with your the emcee or “Trivia Master” for the evening. Neither confirming nor denying, Pete issued this warning, “Heckle annual dues of $10 per household. Your current membership at your own peril!” and promised some surprises. This should make for a very interesting evening! status can be found above the mailing address. So call your neighbors, friends, co-workers and grab a team of eight and go to www.macklindbd.com to register New Member Membership Renewal and pay using PayPal online or call 256-9835. Our goal is to fill the Parish Center so reserve your table today! Name______Address:______Homeowner Renter Business/Property Owner Phone (optional):______THE LATEST NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ IS ON THE Southampton Email (optional):______Yahoo! Group. Register to read messages from your neighbors, ask questions, address concerns, talk about your favorite business, connect with city services and I can volunteer! (optional) Photographer much more! Joining is FREE. Follow these 4 EASY STEPS: Editor Writer Block Captain Landscape Social PR Special Events Board

Please make your check payable to: “Southampton Neighborhood Association” and mail to: 1 2 3 4 Southampton Neighborhood Association, Inc. Type Under the heading, In the resulting window, In the next window, P.O. Box 5183 www.groups.yahoo.com “Join a Group,” type: click on the link: follow the instructions Southampton Neighborhood Southampton Neighborhood. St. Louis, MO 63139 into your browser window. and complete the Click the Search Button. subscription form. President’s Community Updates Business and Commercial Development Message Southtown Centre at Kingshighway and Chippewa is close to having some new tenants. Ron Bush’s Pizza, slated to go across from Coldstone Creamery, is in the final stages of negotiation. There are “coming soon” Hi all, stickers on the windows of this space and lessor Sansone Company is projecting an opening date sometime For those of you who came out early next year. • TheArmy Corp of Engineers is planning to place a recruiting office at Southtown, maxing to enjoy the Summer Picnic, out the allowable amount of office space there. • Fantastic Sam’s is planning to move to Southtown from thank you for taking part in its current space across Chippewa. what’s turning into a nice tradition. We were lucky to have good weather, free trolley TheSouthtown Business Boosters , a volunteer group working on filling the vacancies inSouthtown Centre rides and free sno-cones, and is continuing to contact other businesses about Southtown, including First Watch, St. Louis Bread Company, visits from Aldermen Baringer FedEx Kinko’s, Blockbuster Video, and Sappington Farmer’s Market. First Watch, Bread Company, and and Gregali, representatives from Congressman Sappington Farmer’s Market have expressed some interest in the site. Carnahan’s office, and Mayor Slay himself. Our volunteers Along South Kingshighway, McDonald’s has been demoed, and if you blinked you missed it. The original were outstanding, as usual, Chad Stockel, President, as was support from our development plan called for a new building in ninety days. We expect it will take longer. • Garcia Properties Southampton Neighborhood neighborhood businesses. is working on the yoga studio in its storefront across from Starbuck’s, and is talking to prospective tenants Association about a restaurant in the remaining space. Both DC Auto and Jubilee Church have done extensive facade It’s that time of year again. In work, enhancing the appearance of both buildings. • TheSouthtown Streetscape project is all but done, with addition to being time for the pennant race in baseball, back to school events, fall planting, some sod and a few patches of concrete work that need to be finished. Additionally, Southtown Business cooler weather, and the introduction of the winter seasonal Association members will be adopting stretches of Kingshighway to maintain, removing trash and weeds. beers by our local brewers (the first and last on the list have a special place in my heart), it’s time for membership renewal in the Neighborhood Association. Neighborhood Calling all New and Used Volunteers for a Vision and Brainstorming Session Why should you join? Membership is a great way to meet neighbors outside your block, to get to know your local Big ideas for the neighborhood? Looking to get involved in the community? Interested in political leaders, and to stay informed about issues and have helping make Southampton a better place to live? Just plain bored? The reason for volunteering your voice heard. Your membership allows our Association matters not – Southampton Neighborhood Association is having a volunteer information and to have a strong voice. It’s also pretty cheap. brainstorming meeting on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the meeting room Appealing to your sense of responsibility (and guilt) -- while at Macklind Avenue Deli at the corner of Macklind and Nottingham Avenues. All who are we’re lucky enough to be fully staffed by volunteers, we still interested in volunteering are welcome and encouraged to attend. Dick Krekeler, owner of the have bills to pay, and membership dues are how we pay them. The money pays for our insurance, our social events, a portion Deli will be offering $1.50 brews along with the usual sodas, snacks and sandwiches available in the store. of the newsletter costs, and miscellaneous items throughout the year. Without dues, we simply can’t function. We will start by discussing what’s great in the neighborhood and what’s not so great. Hopefully we will have So please, take the time to fill out the form in this Newsletter enough people to break into teams in your interested area, where you can further discuss your visions and and either become a new member, or renew your current hopes for Southampton, come up with a plan of action, and form ad hoc committees. Areas of focus could be membership. Whether we’re saying “Nice to meet you” crime, beautification, litter, traffic, website, neighborhood history, photography, signage or markers, business or “Welcome back,” we’re glad to have you as part of development and marketing, newsletter editing, writing, layout or advertising, social events planning, block Southampton Neighborhood Association. captain and membership recruitment or anything else anyone wants to volunteer to help with. “Any effort or Sincerely, help is appreciated,” said Neighborhood Association President Chad Stockel. “We realize these are volunteer Chad Stockel positions, and people have commitments to work and family, so it’s not like we’re expecting our volunteers to President, Southampton Neighborhood Association put in a required number of hours. We’re just glad to have people step up.”

SNA Progressive Yard/Garage Sale Participation Form Mortgage Lenders Please fill out your information below and mail form with $10 (cash or check made out to SNA or Southampton Neighborhood Association) to: in the News Holly Chapman, ATTN: SNA Yard Sale, 5451 Delor St., St. Louis MO 63109 Recent events in the mortgage industry have left buyers & sellers nervous. Several big name address ______lenders have folded in recent weeks, leaving name ______many scrambling to find a new mortgage at home phone ______cell phone ______the last minute. e-mail ______What happened & why? In the recent Your $10 entry fee includes: years of the real estate boom lenders became • advertising for the garage sale (2 newspapers and online) increasingly generous with many forms of • signing/balloons5508 SUT inH yourERL frontAND yard and signing at major intersections “easy loans.” All you needed was a good • inclusionSALE on a mapPENDING for all shoppers credit score to qualify. These loans along with others had a high default rate. This mixed with the high prices buyers were paying, have now left the lenders & or investors holding the bag on properties that are no longer worth what is owed SandiSandi Summer Picnic Pictures on them. There were lots of surprises at the SNA July Picnic in Wilmore Park, Taschler including trolley rides and an unannounced visit from the Mayor! Now what? We were already experiencing T a aschler slowing market, a normal check & balance, prior to the bad news. I believe we will now see a smaller but more qualified pool of buyers. We will startThe to DIFFERENCEThe “DIFFERENCE” once again see more FHA & VA loans, which carryBetween Between Fo forr Sale sale PMI & are secured by the government. Many forms & SOLD!!! 5716 MURDOCH of first-time buyer loans are still available. We will & see buyers asking for up to 6% concessions from SALE PENDING sellers so they can still get 100% loans. Life as we “SOLD” know it, will go on with a few minor adjustments. How should you protect yourself? Now may 348-4434 not be the best time to go it alone or to hire457- a 6777 discount broker. Instead, hire a full service agent #457-6777 who has been in business long enough to remember what it takes to buy & sell in a challenging market – one who has first-hand knowledge of current trends. 5711 SUTHERLAND Make sure they are willing to take the time to educate you, so you can make SALE PENDING good decisions. Property that is priced & conditioned properly will still sell.

Southampton Neighborhood Association is a non-political, nonprofit, neighborhood group dedicated to improving the quality of life and promoting community spirit in Southampton Neighborhood. The Association exists solely for the benevolent and educational benefit of the Community and in no manner for financial gain or profit. Its objectives are to advance and promote the public interest of Southampton Neighborhood. The Association shall advocate zoning in land use that is proper and appropriate for the community and it shall oppose the action of any individual or institution which is detrimental to the community. Southampton’s boundaries are Kingshighway on the east, Hampton on the West, Chippewa on the north and Rhodes on the south. As property owners and residents, we strongly advocate the preservation of real estate property values. Spotlight On the neighborhood Street Name Snapshot

the origin of Chippewa street Iron Rosettes Chippewa Street, the northern border of the Southampton (SoHa) Neighborhood, is named Symbols of SoHa for the Chippewa Indians. The Chippewa The new Southampton logo adopted by the Macklind Business District to Indians were part of the Algonquian Indians. promote our neighborhood as “SoHa” was inspired by the iron rosettes on The Algonquian Indians consisted of various several of the commercial buildings in the area. They’re visible on Manzo’s groups of Native Americans that spoke similar building at Macklind and Devonshire (built in two stages, in 1915 and 1923), languages. They are closely related to the and on the building that houses Raineri Construction on at same intersection Ottawa Indians and Potawatomi Indians. (built in 1903). The Chippewa Indians participated in the Although the iron rosettes are appreciated for their decorative quality, their fur trade with French merchants. Numerous primary function is to anchor iron beams in the framework of the structure. Frenchmen found wives among the Chippewa According to Anthony Raineri, “Each cast iron rosette sits over a horizontal women. Chippewa warriors also fought with piece of steel where it joins a steel column that holds up the second floor. The the French against the British in the French and Indian War. When France surrendered to two pieces of steel are bolted together to support the weight of the upper Nicely painted rosettes highlight The British in 1763, they lost the area east of story. Inside, there’s a big flat washer; outside, the rosette serves as the washer. the Manzo Importing Co. In the center of the rosette there’s a nut that holds the bolt.” building at Macklind and the Mississippi. Following France’s defeat, the Devonshire. Chippewa Indians assisted Pontiac in Pontiac’s Cast iron is made by pouring iron in its liquid state into molds, a process well Rebellion from1763-1766, an uprising against suited to mass production. The heyday of the cast iron industry in America the English. Pontiac was a chief of the Ottawas lasted from the 1860’s thru the 1890’s. The era passed with the introduction of steel. but his mother was Chippewa. A Brief History of Iron in St. Louis Three years after the war ended, Pontiac came After the devastating riverfront fire of 1849, wood fell out of favor as a commercial building material. Iron, to visit his friends St. Ange de Bellerive, Charles extremely durable and relatively affordable, became highly desirable. Iron had been discovered in Missouri Gratiot and Gabiel Cerre. Pontiac decided while in the mid-eighteenth century and was mined at Iron Mountain 65 miles away. The increasing flow of in St. Louis to visit other friends in Illinois. He westward-bound settlers in the early nineteenth century boosted iron manufacturing in St. Louis, as the was warned that he would not be safe, but he pioneers needed kettles, pots, and stoves to take with them on their journey. adamantly insisted. He was killed by the Illinois Indians in April 1769. His body was brought Decorative iron can St. Louis became a center of cast-iron back to St. Louis. Chief Pontiac was buried with production after the Iron Mountain full military honors near what now is Fourth and be seen on many Walnut Streets. buildings throughout Railroad launched service in 1858 and provided access to the vast iron the city. Many an reserves to the southwest. St. Louis Some call it “Mine Road” elaborate façade may firms excelled in the production of Some people also called Chippewa Street “Mine both cast and wrought iron. Road” because it leads to the Russell coal mine, be mistakenly perceived and the Christy and Bingham clay mines. The as stone. Decorative iron can be seen on Christy clay mine was located at the intersection Example of ironwork downtown many buildings throughout the city. of Christy and Delor, now the site of Burlington Many an elaborate façade may be mistakenly perceived as stone. One of the Coat Factory and other retail stores. best-known manufacturers was Mesker & Bros. Iron Company located in a complex of buildings on South Sixth Street. They produced elaborate cast iron house fronts and storefronts that were shipped all over the –Article by Carol Keller, Milentz Avenue United States. They were marketed based on the beauty and durability they offered at a relatively reasonable cost compared to brickwork or masonry. Mesker published beautifully illustrated catalogs; many of the originals can be viewed at the Missouri Historical Society library.

Their 1888 catalog states: “Galvanized Iron has become such an important factor in the Architectural decoration of modern buildings, we have recently found it necessary to treble the capacity of our works in order to keep abreast with a constantly increasing demand.” This catalog shows the availability of star anchors (commonly seen on buildings on Laclede’s Landing and in Soulard and Lafayette Square), but not rosettes. Proudly Serving Southampton’s Residents Another famous firm originally called South St. and Businesses Louis Iron Works Company is today known better Chippewa St. as Stupp Bros. Bridge & Iron Co. Founded in 1854 366 by a recent immigrant from Cologne, Germany, the company attained an international reputation for Murdoch Ave. ornamental and structural work. “The pattenwork on his gates was so admired that in 1870, the city We are here of St. Louis selected the growing company to make for you. Rosette on the Raineri Construc- the fencing for Lafayette Park. The beautiful gates tion building at Macklind and stand today as a lasting example of Stupp’s skill,” Devonshire. The building is wrote Charlene Bry in the April 7, 1977, issue of the Hampton Ave. undergoing a complete rehab. Globe-Democrat. Christy Blvd.

S Kingshighway Blvd. According to M. M. Yeakle, Sr., author of The City of St. Louis To-Day: Its Progress and Prospects; Truth in Homely Words, and Facts in Faithful Figures, published in 1889: 30 “It is but reasonable, that the iron industries should have great prosperity in St. Louis vois Ave. organford Rd. ra M from their accessibility to ores, fuel and every adjunct necessary to the business, and G should occupy a very chief position in the manufacture of iron and steel products, in comparison with other localities.”

It is virtually impossible to determine the originators of our own charming iron rosettes in the Macklind Business District. Dozens of iron companies flourished We treat our neighbors like family. during this period (late 1800s - early 1900s). Many occupied large office buildings downtown and maintained vast warehouses of stock. They shipped their wares (314) 715-9333 throughout the country – back east as well as to the developing west. 5807 Murdoch • St. Louis, MO 63109 1-800-455-2275 www.montgomerybank.com The leaders of these firms were titans of local industry and were prominent members of the Merchants’ Exchange. In the 1870s there even used to be a weekly publication called “Mines, Metals & Arts.” A Weekly Journal Devoted to Mines, Metallurgy, Manufactures, Technics, Engineering, Chemistry, Fine Arts and Markets.” – Thanks to Francie Futterman, Sutherland Avenue, for researching and writing this article.

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Postmaster: Dated material. Please deliver PROMPTLY In This Issue... n Neighborhood Progressive Yard/Garage Sale n Macklind Business District Trivia Night n Community Updates n Spotlight on the Neighborhood: Iron Rosettes n Street Name Snapshot: Chippewa Street