Scottsdale, Arizona

The badmansard children are growing up too fast and the oldest has moved to Arizona.  While visiting her, found a pocket of mansard apartments.  

 

Kansas City, MO

KC MO - Westport Plaza.  

 

Springtime, Fayetteville, Arkansas

 My daughter is a student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.  Northwest Arkansas (NWA) is a great area with excellent hiking, restaurants, art, biking, shopping, etc thanks mostly to Bentonville, home of Walmart.   During a recent visit, I found this mansard while walking on the Razorback / Frisco trail, NWA's version of the Katy trail.  And , duh, Crystal Bridges is simply amazing.  

Des Peres , Missouri

 My son is a high school senior.  He's planning to attend two proms and will wear a tux at graduation.  Most young men these days seem to be buying a tux as opposing to renting a tux.  Way more economical.  As a result, I was in Des Peres on Manchester Road trying to get to Joseph A. Banks.  I missed the turn (of course!)  and did a quick turn-around in a parking lot with a little building with a faux- mansard roof.  Here is the mansard, and here is my son and me in his tuxedo.  

the Hill neighborhood, St. Louis

New homes in the historic Hill neighborhood of St. Louis with mansard-ish roofs.  The Hill is St. Louis' Italian neighborhood.  I love the Hill and I find myself there frequently for great restaurants, Italian grocers, hair cuts and coffee.  

favorite Hill event:  Wine-down Wednesday.  It's a combined bar and antique shopping experiences.   

favorite family place for dinner:  Guido's, kids love it. 

best new restaurant :  I also had a couple of dinners at Sado where the food (mostly Japanese) was exceptional.  Hey waitstaff - lighten up.  You seem joyless.     

need to try:  the 11:00 am mass at St. Ambrose

I miss:  kids' dentist used to be on the Hill but outgrew the space.  

Fayetteville, Arkansas Brutalism architecture

No explanation needed.  A bank in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Reminds me of the Mudd Hall at Wash U where I took the bar prep class in 1996.

 

Go Greek! Go Mansard!

 

Beta Sigma Psi at Missouri Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri.

Nashville

"going to Nashville for a girls weekend" may have been a cliche choice, but it was fun and I found a mansard.  Plus, a Minnie Pearl tapestry.

 

Eureka! I found a cute little mansard house

My great aunt Helen died in 2020 and the family recently put together a get-together in her honor.  Saw this adorable mansard house on Eureka Road.  Love it.  
 

Pretty Mansard - University of Arkansas

 

The bad mansard children are growing up so quickly.  Here is my daughter Audrey by an iconic mansard - Old Main at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.  

Ballwin, MO

 Saw this bad mansard in a subdivision dropping my daughter off at a friend's house for a ride back to college.  Just 24 hours earlier, she had cut her hand with a knife at Soulard Mardi Gras. We had to find some doctor friends who could take a look at the wound early Sunday before she left town.  Don't worry - daughter is fine.  

Whitehorse Lane

 Yes, it's an awkward mansard but it's kind of cute.  Reminds me of a tuxedo cate.  Thanks neighbor Kent for finding this one.  

New jobs bring new architecture

 Not mansard related, but my husband has a new job in the beautiful Station G building on Chouteau.  It's an old Laclede Gas pump station.   John has worked in some architecturally amazing places over the last 25+ years:  1136 Washington Ave (A.D. Brown Building), 1221 Locust Street (Shell Building), 1101 Lucas Avenue (Hadley-Dean Building) and 415 N. 10th Street. 

As for me, I've only ever worked in two old, cool buildings.  For a hot minute, my law firm had temporary space in Union Trust Building.  My office was huge with a lumpy couch and a pretty chandelier.  It's now the site of the Saint Louis Hotel...my old office is now a hotel room, LOL.  Then, when I was in law school, I worked in the Frisco Building at 9th and Olive.  Other than that, my firm has been in very boring space:  200 N. Broadway, 211 N. Broadway and 515 Olive.

Enjoy the pics. 

Jefferson City, Missouri

Here is a mansard in Jefferson City, MO or, as Missourians call it, "Jeff City."  It's the state capitol.  Isn't it weird we call it "Jeff City??"  I cannot even think of another state capital with such casual naming.  Steve City?  Bill Burg?  Tommy Town?  Jeff City is such a strange little nickname for our state capital.

 

Wall Street Journal Mansards

My astute father in law found this little story about the mansard roofline in the Wall Street Journal.  Thanks, JJD Sr.!

 

Port Angeles, Washington

 

Thank you, Elise, for sending this crazy mansard from your Pacific NW vacation.  Based on Elise's vacation pictures of flowers, mountains, rivers, lakes and food/beer, I think I need to make this trip.   Sadly, I'm almost 50 and never been to Washington state.

Holly Hills

A mansard topped home in St. Louis Holly Hills (*how could I have thought this was St. Louis Hills v. Holly Hills?  have I lost my mind??) as seen while I was running kids to volleyball camp.  It's been a weird summer for kids.  Almost all the camps canceled but I have to say the camps that have been open are definitely well organized and socially distant.  It's good training for these kids before they head back to school - wearing masks, staying 6 feet apart, answering screening questions before they enter campus, having temps taken. 

Another damaged bad mansard

Following up on our fire-damaged Granite City apartment building, here is a mansard roofed home with hail damage on the roof.  At least the roof is flat!

newsworthy mansard

This mansard apartment building in Illinois caught fire back in February. 

Athens (Georgia)

If you are my age (late 40's), Athens, GA means one thing.  Even more than the University of Georgia, Athens is the birthplace of REM* and the B-52's.  I remember visiting my grandparents in the early 1980's and seeing flyers for the band REM playing at the DePauw university auditorium in Indiana.  What was the REM?, I wondered.  A few months later, I had the EP Chronic Town and played Boxcars constantly (it made sense for a teen in Webster Groves- so many boxcars to see on the two rail tracks that cross WG).  By the late 1980's, REM exploded and I kind of lost interest.  "Anything after Fables is a sell-out," I said because I was cool like that.

Anyway, when my friend Richard moved to Athens, I thought REM's birthplace!  But, Richard also found this sweet and sad mansard.  Thanks Richard!

Footnote:  I interviewed a lovely man from Athens for a  family WW2 football project I was working on. He was charming and helpful.  He was a press assistant to a 508th AB officer who had a great memory of some historic WW2 occupation football game.  Anyway, he reminded me in his smooth accent that Athens was the home of REM, the B-52's and Widespread Panic, LOL.