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Kingsway West, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Kingsway West is a north-side St. Louis neighborhood, a brick grid boxed in by Union Boulevard, Natural Bridge Avenue and North Kingshighway.
About Kingsway West
Where to stay in Kingsway West
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
No hotel sign hangs on Union Boulevard. Kingsway West is housing first, from the attached townhomes of Kings Heights to the newer blocks at Norwood Square, and the storefronts along Natural Bridge Avenue and Union Boulevard run to fast food, a laundry and a corner grocery rather than to rooms. Travelers take North Kingshighway south instead, toward the Central West End hotels facing Forest Park.
Natural Bridge Avenue also carries Missouri Route 115 west to Interstate 70 and St. Louis Lambert International Airport, which suits you if an early flight matters more than a walk.
About Kingsway West
What are the main landmarks in Kingsway West?
Sherman Park anchors the southern corner, and the Wohl Recreation Center sits beside it where Dr. Martin Luther King Drive meets North Kingshighway. Congregations hold the rest of the built stock. Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church stands on Northland Avenue, All Saints' Episcopal Church at 5010 Terry Avenue, and Friendly Missionary Baptist Church on Lexington Avenue, each a brick anchor for the blocks around it.
What is the history of Kingsway West?
Kenrick Catholic Boy's High School, founded in 1911, moved into a new limestone building at Kingshighway and Cote Brilliante Avenue in 1925 and renamed itself for its benefactor, the St. Louis oil-company founder William Cullen McBride. That school ran until 1971. Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls later used the same rooms, from 2015 until it closed in 2023.
The DePaul Hospital building on North Kingshighway joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and the Lexington Theatre once pulled audiences to North Union Boulevard.
Where is Kingsway West?
A slanted rectangle of 0.42 square miles, Kingsway West lies between Union Boulevard and North Kingshighway. Natural Bridge Avenue caps it.
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Updated September 2026