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Gravois Park, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Gravois Park is a historic St. Louis neighbourhood named for a park dating from 1812, between Jefferson Avenue and Grand Boulevard.
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Where to stay in Gravois Park
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Gravois Park is housing first, a grid of homes, corner storefronts, and small businesses whose architecture reflects settlement at the turn of the 20th century between Jefferson Avenue and Grand Boulevard. No hotel door opens inside the four bounds. A room in the wider St.
Louis grid, then a ride down for the day, is how most visitors take Gravois Park in. Cherokee Street and the blocks around Holy Cross Lutheran Church give the walk its shape.
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Cherokee Street
Cherokee Street draws the one bound of Gravois Park lined with storefronts rather than front steps. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in Cherokee Streetvisitors coming for Holy Cross Lutheran Church and the streets built around itThe Miami Street blocks
Holy Cross Lutheran Church stands on Miami Street, a few blocks in from the Jefferson Avenue bound of Gravois Park. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in The Miami Street blocksslow mornings beside the 1812 park the neighbourhood was named afterThe namesake park
The park that gave Gravois Park its name dates from 1812 and drew nineteenth-century praise for its beauty. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in The namesake parkHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around St. Louis
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About Gravois Park
What are the main landmarks in Gravois Park?
Holy Cross Lutheran Church stands on Miami Street, blocks in from the Jefferson Avenue bound. The Froebel Literacy Academy building holds most of a block on Nebraska Avenue. What Gravois Park has is its grid, state-named avenues running north to south, Ohio Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue among them, crossed by Winnebago Street and Potomac Street, with the namesake park in the middle.
Cherokee Street carries the storefronts. The famous names sit elsewhere: St. Francis de Sales Church beyond Cherokee Street in Fox Park, the Chatillon-DeMenil House over in Benton Park, and Sugarloaf Mound south of Chippewa Street in Mount Pleasant.
What is the history of Gravois Park?
A park carrying the name dates from 1812, long before the surrounding streets were cut, and nineteenth-century writers praised its beauty while the ground beyond it was still open. Gravois Park filled in around it. Its architecture reflects a settlement at the turn of the 20th century, block by block, inside the bounds of Jefferson Avenue, Chippewa Street, Grand Boulevard, and Cherokee Street.
In 1914 the namesake park was written into a walking tour of St. Louis, staged to show off the City Plan Commission's idealized view of the shape of the city.
Where is Gravois Park?
The grid of Gravois Park is drawn by four streets: Jefferson Avenue, Chippewa Street, Grand Boulevard, and Cherokee Street, with the namesake park inside them.
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What is the best area to stay in Gravois Park?
Cherokee Street: days spent along the Cherokee Street shop run. The Miami Street blocks: visitors coming for Holy Cross Lutheran Church and the streets built around it. The namesake park: slow mornings beside the 1812 park the neighbourhood was named after.
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Updated October 2026