Low brick warehouse blocks from the 1900s and 1910s, with a modern streetcar line down the middle of the street.
What Crossroads Arts District looks like
Two and three storey brick and concrete warehouses line the grid on flat, wide streets, broken by a handful of taller early towers. A streetcar runs down the middle of the street, its overhead wire visible against the building fronts, with stops at 16th and at 19th Streets.
The rises on a wedge shaped corner lot, its dark red brick tower topped by an illuminated red arrow sign that still reads WESTERN AUTO. A few blocks over, the 's reinforced concrete front shows terra cotta piers under Gothic motifs. Its current owner's sign, ABDIANA, runs across the roofline in place of the tire company's own.
Along 18th Street between Baltimore and Broadway, low brick distribution buildings from the years still stand in a run, several storeys each. Ground floors are now cut through with gallery windows. Corner buildings elsewhere in the grid carry the same diamond set brick trim and glass storefront bands, some marked for lease.
Warehouse ground floors throughout the district hold galleries, breweries and restaurants, with residential lofts on the floors above. At the Stuart Hall building, a seven storey former biscuit factory turned loft block, rail tracks still cross the street at grade below its chimney and roofline sign.
Shot in Crossroads Arts District
Netflix's Queer Eye used a loft inside the Firestone Building at 2001 Grand Boulevard as the Fab Five's home base across seasons 3 and 4. Season 3 also sent the cast to , the arcade bar on Southwest Boulevard, for a birthday scene.
Queer Eye, 2019
The Firestone Building loft
Netflix's Queer Eye housed its season 3 and 4 cast in a loft inside the Firestone Building, using it as their home base between makeovers. The building's terra cotta piers divide the window bays floor after floor up to a carved cornice below the roofline sign. Street View
Cream city brick warehouses of two to six storeys fill the Third Ward at a similar scale to the Crossroads, with the same turn of the century commercial fronts and loading bays. Terra cotta and metal cornice detail repeats across the blocks the way it does on Grand Boulevard. The cream colored brick reads lighter than Kansas City's red brick blocks, so a colour grade or an overcast day keeps the match close in a wide shot. Try searching cream city brick warehouses now.
Washington Avenue Historic District in St. Louis, Missouri
Multi storey brick and stone warehouses built for the garment trade line Washington Avenue with the same terra cotta accented fronts as the Crossroads. Ground floors now hold restaurants and boutiques behind the original storefront glass, the same conversion the Crossroads went through. St. Louis's buildings run taller and closer together in places, so a lower, tighter frame keeps the two to three storey scale of the Crossroads believable. Try searching brick garment warehouses now.
RiNo Art District in Denver, Colorado
Brick warehouses with loading docks and exposed concrete now hold RiNo's arts district of galleries, breweries and studios, the same conversion that filled the Crossroads. Street art covers many of RiNo's walls floor to roofline, well beyond anything painted on the Crossroads' brick fronts. Frame away from the largest murals so RiNo's heavier street art coverage does not give the location away. Try searching brick warehouses arts district now.
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