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Vandeventer, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Church fronts break the house rows of Vandeventer, a neighbourhood of St. Louis between Delmar Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.
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Where to stay in Vandeventer
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Vandeventer is residential from Delmar Boulevard up to Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, so a bed here means crossing one of the four streets that close it. The Central West End begins on the far kerb of Delmar Boulevard, and its rooms are the nearest to the district. East over Vandeventer Avenue, the Grand Center Arts District puts the concert halls a short ride away, which suits you best when the evening is already booked. Lewis Place, west across Newstead Avenue, is houses again.
Page Boulevard carries the buses back in.
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South over Delmar Boulevard
The Central West End starts on the far kerb of Delmar Boulevard, which is the southern line of Vandeventer, so the district is reached on foot rather than by car.Find hotels in South over Delmar BoulevardAnyone with tickets in the Grand Center Arts District who still wants Page Boulevard and Finney Avenue close.East over Vandeventer Avenue
Vandeventer Avenue closes the eastern side, and the halls of the Grand Center Arts District stand a few blocks beyond it, so the two sit within one bus ride of each other.Find hotels in East over Vandeventer AvenueVisitors set on Enright Avenue and the Block Unit No. 1 Historic District who accept a short ride in each morning.Inside the four streets
Between Delmar Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive the frontages are flats, churches and small shops, and the neighbourhood keeps no lodging of its own. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Inside the four streetsHotel 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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Museums & Galleries
3- Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
- Saint Louis University Museum of Art
Churches & Religious Sites
6- St. Francis Xavier College Church Heritage
- Second Presbyterian Church Heritage
- Antioch Baptist Church Heritage
- Unitarian Church of the Messiah Heritage
- St. Augustine`s Roman Catholic Church Heritage
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- St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, Convent and Academy Heritage
Stadiums & Sports
3- Saint Louis Chess Club
- Union Grounds
- Red Stocking Baseball Park
Landmarks & Notable Places
8- Chuck Berry House Heritage
- Kate Chopin House Heritage
- Butler House Heritage
- Joseph Erlanger House Heritage
- Dr. George Ashe Bronson House Heritage
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- Dr. Herman S. Dreer House Heritage
- Zebediah F. and Mary H. Wetzell House Heritage
- Frederick Newton Judson House Heritage
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About Vandeventer
What are the main landmarks in Vandeventer?
Vandeventer keeps domestic landmarks. Forty-Eleven Delmar, an apartment building on the Delmar Boulevard edge, went onto the National Register in 2008. Enright Avenue carries the Block Unit No. 1 Historic District, forty-six buildings listed together in 2000.
Page Boulevard cuts the middle, with Finney Avenue and West Belle Place running parallel to it through the blocks between Vandeventer Avenue and Newstead Avenue. Ranken Technical College fills the corner immediately west across Newstead Avenue, outside the neighbourhood line.
What is the history of Vandeventer?
Vandeventer holds the sites of two institutions built for Black St. Louis under segregation, Douglass University and the Douglass Theatre. The university opened in 1926 and taught out of rented rooms on Enright Avenue and on West Belle Place, a few doors apart. Finney Avenue ran the picture houses.
The Douglass Theatre and the Venus Theatre both stood on it, both served audiences barred from the downtown screens, and neither building is left. Page Boulevard still crosses from Vandeventer Avenue to Newstead Avenue, and the street plan outlasted them all.
Where is Vandeventer?
Vandeventer fills a long rectangle between Delmar Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, closed east by Vandeventer Avenue and west by Newstead Avenue.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Vandeventer?
South over Delmar Boulevard: Travellers who want the nearest rooms to Vandeventer and a walk back north over a single street.. East over Vandeventer Avenue: Anyone with tickets in the Grand Center Arts District who still wants Page Boulevard and Finney Avenue close.. Inside the four streets: Visitors set on Enright Avenue and the Block Unit No. 1 Historic District who accept a short ride in each morning..
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Updated October 2026