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Old North St. Louis, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Old North St. Louis is a neighbourhood of nineteenth-century brick houses and community gardens just north of downtown, the home of Crown Candy Kitchen.
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Where to stay in Old North St. Louis
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Crown Candy Kitchen draws more people up here than any hotel does. Rooms sit downtown by the Gateway Arch instead, a short ride south, which makes these blocks a place to spend a morning rather than a base for a week of nights. Old North St.
Louis rewards an early start. Anyone booking near the Gateway Arch can walk up in good weather and be back among the downtown restaurants by evening.
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Around Crown Candy Kitchen
The soda-fountain corner and the brick rowhouse blocks behind it put Old North St. Louis at its own doorstep, though what beds exist here are in houses rather than hotels. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Around Crown Candy KitchenFirst stays pairing the Gateway Arch with a morning at Crown Candy Kitchen.Downtown by the Gateway Arch
The riverfront blocks under the Gateway Arch hold most of the city's rooms and leave the walk north into the brick streets well within reach.Find hotels in Downtown by the Gateway ArchFamilies who want the City Museum at the door and Old North St. Louis after breakfast.The City Museum side of downtown
Evenings stay busy around the City Museum and the National Blues Museum, and the northern brick streets are a short run from both.Find hotels in The City Museum side of downtownHotel 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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Churches & Religious Sites
4- St. Stanislaus Kostka Church Heritage
- Unitarian Church of the Messiah Heritage
- Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South Heritage
- St. Augustine`s Roman Catholic Church Heritage
Castles & Historic Sites
1- Gateway Arch Heritage
Stadiums & Sports
2- St. Louis Coliseum
- Union Grounds
Landmarks & Notable Places
3- Campbell House Museum Heritage
- Dr. George Ashe Bronson House Heritage
- Clemens House-Columbia Brewery District Heritage
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About Old North St. Louis
What are the main landmarks in Old North St. Louis?
Crown Candy Kitchen is the address people name first. Its soda fountain has outlasted most of what stood around it, and the streets behind hold ranks of nineteenth-century brick houses with community gardens worked in among them. St. Stanislaus Kostka Church rises just west.
The Griot Museum of Black History sits on the same side. Downtown, to the south, the Gateway Arch, the City Museum and the National Blues Museum come within a walk, with the Shrine of St. Joseph on the way.
What is the history of Old North St. Louis?
Rows of nineteenth-century brick houses were raised on the ground just north and slightly west of the downtown area, and the survivors of that building period still set the scale of the streets. Parish churches went up alongside them. St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of the nearest.
Ground later opened between the houses, and the community gardens that fill it are as much a part of the record as the masonry. Crown Candy Kitchen has held its place through all of it.
Where is Old North St. Louis?
Old North St. Louis fills a tight grid north of the downtown edge, its blocks divided between brick houses and community gardens.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Old North St. Louis?
Around Crown Candy Kitchen: Travellers who want the neighbourhood's own streets before the riverfront.. Downtown by the Gateway Arch: First stays pairing the Gateway Arch with a morning at Crown Candy Kitchen.. The City Museum side of downtown: Families who want the City Museum at the door and Old North St. Louis after breakfast..
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Updated October 2026