The year 1908 marked our neighborhood's actual beginning.
Georgiana Stuart
"Dedicated to all our neighbors of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Neighborhood, the reason we live here and like it."
"I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to enter your unique community Art Fair.
As noted in the last issue of THE PAPER, on May 21, a constructive criticism (for '74) and organizational (for '75) meeting was held.
Blanche Reel and Linda Vaughn have volunteered to coordinate the Heritage St. Louis project for Washington Heights.
The History Committees for Parkview and The Rosedale Neighborhood Association are getting back to the task of producing the Heritage/St. Louis survey after taking a break for the holidays.
The Executive Committee of the Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Association, after looking carefully at the present By-Laws (adopted in 1962), decided some changing and updating were needed.
The Neighborhood: A History of Skinker-DeBaliviere, which made its debut at the 1973 Art Fair-House Tour, has recently brought some outside attention to our neighborhood. (Copies of this 51-page booklet are available at the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council Office for $1.00).
Judging from the number of people seen at the display houses and a monetary intake of $527. it seems that this year's Skinker-DeBaliviere House Tour was again a success.
Two hundred forty-five copies of the history were sold at the Art Fair and about 60 copies have been sold since.
The following is a continuation of the listings of the first residents at each address in Skinker-DeBaliviere as found in Gould's Blue Books.
Gould’s Directory of St. Louis, in those volumes known as the "Blue Books", listed "prominent citizens" of the St. Louis metropolitan area alphabetically and then listed street addresses and those who lived there.
