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JeffVanderLou, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
JeffVanderLou is a neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn between North Jefferson Avenue, North Vandeventer Avenue and Delmar Boulevard.
About JeffVanderLou
Where to stay in JeffVanderLou
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A bed between Delmar Boulevard and Natural Bridge Avenue is hard to find, so the search moves out to the North Jefferson Avenue side or south across Delmar. The Delmar side reads best for anyone who came for ragtime, since the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site stands on that line and the blocks below it hold the nearer places to sleep. Jefferson works differently.
From there the walk in to The Griot Museum of Black History takes minutes.
About JeffVanderLou
What are the main landmarks in JeffVanderLou?
The Griot Museum of Black History holds the record of Black St. Louis a short walk in from North Jefferson Avenue. Ragtime keeps an address on Delmar Boulevard. The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site preserves the rooms the composer worked in there, and the Chuck Berry House stands a little past the northwestern line.
Museums of another scale wait east of North Jefferson Avenue, among them the City Museum, the Campbell House Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
What is the history of JeffVanderLou?
The name carries Jefferson and Vandeventer inside it. North Jefferson Avenue has long held the eastern edge and North Vandeventer Avenue the northwestern one, with the city itself supplying the syllable at the end, so the three parts of JeffVanderLou can still be walked in a morning. Delmar Boulevard closes the south.
The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site stands on that line, in the rooms the ragtime composer kept during his St. Louis years, and the Chuck Berry House marks a second musician's address in the streets past the northwestern boundary.
Where is JeffVanderLou?
Natural Bridge Avenue angles across the northeast, while North Compton Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive cut off the southwestern corner.
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Updated September 2026