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St. Louis Hills, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
St. Louis Hills covers the southwest corner of St. Louis between Chippewa Street and Gravois Avenue, with Ted Drewes Frozen Custard on its Chippewa edge.
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Where to stay in St. Louis Hills
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St. Louis Hills was platted for houses and yards, so its four boundary streets carry through traffic rather than hotel signs. The Chippewa Street frontage runs to frozen custard, not rooms.
Rooms for the night stand farther in toward the middle of St. Louis, near enough that a car or a bus along Hampton Avenue reaches the Oakland House and the Ted Drewes Frozen Custard counter inside a short morning. Gravois Avenue closes the far side.
Few places to stay in St. Louis Hills — most visitors book in St. Louis nearby.
About St. Louis Hills
What are the main landmarks in St. Louis Hills?
The Oakland House is the one building the record lists inside St. Louis Hills. Alongside it, the Chippewa location of Ted Drewes Frozen Custard has made the northern edge a stop for people who come out for nothing else, and the queue outside it is the closest thing here to a public square. Chippewa Street holds that corner.
The rest of the ground is houses, laid between Hampton Avenue and Gravois Avenue.
What is the history of St. Louis Hills?
Boundaries are what the St. Louis Hills record keeps, and dates are what it leaves out. Chippewa Street takes the northwest and north, Hampton Avenue the east, Gravois Avenue the southeast, and the St. Louis County line the southwest edge of the neighbourhood. Houses fill what those four lines enclose.
The Oakland House is the single listed building among them, and the Chippewa Ted Drewes Frozen Custard has held the northern edge long enough to stand for the whole place.
Where is St. Louis Hills?
St. Louis Hills sits in the southwest part of St. Louis, walled in by Chippewa Street to the north, Hampton Avenue to the east, and Gravois Avenue to the southeast.
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What is the best area to stay in St. Louis Hills?
Chippewa Street: an evening walk to the Ted Drewes Frozen Custard counter on Chippewa Street. Hampton Avenue: drivers using Hampton Avenue to link St. Louis Hills with the rest of the city. Gravois Avenue: travellers pairing the Oakland House with the run out along Gravois Avenue.
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Updated September 2026