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Portland and Westmoreland Places, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Portland and Westmoreland Places is a historic district of 94 houses in the Central West End of St. Louis, beside Forest Park.
About Portland and Westmoreland Places
Where to stay in Portland and Westmoreland Places
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The 94 houses behind the district's two street names are private, so a bed here means the surrounding Central West End, where hotels and guesthouses sit within walking distance of both the district and the museum lawns of Forest Park. Museum mornings favour the Forest Park edge. The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Missouri History Museum stand across that grass.
Nearer the Saint Louis Chess Club, the Central West End's restaurants and bars fill the evenings, which makes that side the better base for anyone who would rather walk to dinner than drive.
About Portland and Westmoreland Places
What are the main landmarks in Portland and Westmoreland Places?
Portland and Westmoreland Places is its own attraction: 94 houses raised between 1890 and 1960, several of them among the finest late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture in the city. Forest Park begins at the district's corner. Its lawns hold the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum, the Saint Louis Zoo and the Saint Louis Science Center, with the James S. McDonnell Planetarium beside them.
The Saint Louis Chess Club and the Second Presbyterian Church stand back in the Central West End.
What is the history of Portland and Westmoreland Places?
The oldest of the 94 houses date from about 1890. The rest ran on until about 1960. One walk along the two streets that give the district its name passes styles set down in the eighteen-nineties beside houses raised two generations later.
Seven decades of building left a wide variety of styles on one small piece of the Central West End, and some of these houses rank among the finest late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture in St. Louis.
Where is Portland and Westmoreland Places?
Portland and Westmoreland Places lies against the northeast corner of Forest Park, inside the Central West End of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Updated September 2026