The Ville
The Ville is a historic African-American neighborhood with many African-American businesses located in North St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. This neighborhood is a forty-two-square-block bounded by St.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri
- Also known as: “The Ville, St. Louis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Antioch Baptist Church and Sumner High School.
Antioch Baptist Church
Church
Photo: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Antioch Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri is a church long important in the Black community of the Ville neighborhood of North St. Louis. It is located in a Gothic Revival-style brick building at 4213 N.
Sumner High School
School
Photo: Kenneth M Burke, Public domain.
Sumner High School is a St. Louis public high school that was the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River in the United States.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Residential area
Photo: Onegentlemanofverona, CC BY 3.0.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Academy and Carr Square.
Academy
Neighborhood
Academy/Sherman Park is a neighborhood in North St. Louis, just outside Central West End. The official boundaries of the area are Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on the north, Delmar Boulevard on the south, North Kingshighway Boulevard on the east, and Union Boulevard on the west.
Carr Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
Carr Square is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is bounded by Cass Avenue on the north, Carr Street on the south, North Tucker Boulevard and North 13th Street on the east, and North Jefferson on the west. Carr Square is situated 2½ miles southeast of The Ville.
Downtown West
Neighborhood
Downtown West is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is, as the name suggests, a section of downtown that is further inland, west from the banks of the Mississippi River. Downtown West is situated 2½ miles southeast of The Ville.
The Ville
- Category: locality
- Location: St. Louis, St. Louis Area, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.65874° or 38° 39′ 31″ northLongitude
-90.24014° or 90° 14′ 25″ westElevation
522 feet (159 metres)Open location code
86CFMQ55+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 6536509951OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to South Azerbaijani—“The Ville” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “維爾區”
- Chinese: “维尔区”
- Dutch: “The Ville”
- French: “The Ville”
- South Azerbaijani: “ت ویل، ایست. لویی”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “The Ville”. Photo: pdsphil, CC BY-SA 2.0.