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Wells/Goodfellow, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Streetcar tracks once ran to the city limit at Wells/Goodfellow, a neighbourhood on the north-west side of St. Louis edged by Natural Bridge Avenue.
About Wells/Goodfellow
Where to stay in Wells/Goodfellow
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Wells/Goodfellow holds no hotel of its own, so a bed here means a room elsewhere in St. Louis and a run out to the city's north-west edge for the day. Beds are scarce.
What the neighbourhood keeps instead is residential ground, long blocks of houses and flats laid out between Goodfellow Boulevard and the city limit, with the older shopfronts gathered on the rim along Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. Natural Bridge Avenue and Union Boulevard take the through traffic. If you come for Arlington School, Burd Avenue is the block to walk.
About Wells/Goodfellow
What are the main landmarks in Wells/Goodfellow?
Wells/Goodfellow keeps its landmarks on Burd Avenue and at the west end of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. Arlington School dates from 1898, a public schoolhouse by William B. Ittner, who drew more than four hundred school buildings across Missouri and beyond. Wellston Station holds the south-west corner, a decommissioned streetcar station at the old Wellston Loop with a National Register listing of its own.
Goodfellow Boulevard runs between them. The Emmanuel DeHodiamont House stands over in the West End, and Church of the Messiah in Visitation Park, both south of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.
What is the history of Wells/Goodfellow?
Wells/Goodfellow owes its north-west edge to a vote taken downtown. St. Louis chose in 1876 to separate from St. Louis County, and the limit drawn then still closes the neighbourhood on that side, with Wellston, Missouri, beyond it. Arlington School followed in 1898.
Streetcars crossed the line for decades, and the Wellston Loop at the end of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive gathered services from the county. The Hodiamont line, the last streetcar route in St. Louis, ran until 1966, and its right-of-way was paved over for buses.
Where is Wells/Goodfellow?
Wells/Goodfellow sits against the north-west city limit of St. Louis, edged by Natural Bridge Avenue, Union Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.
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Updated September 2026