Lafayette Park Baptist Church v. Board of Adjustment of St. Louis

WEIER, Judge.

Landowner, the Lafayette Park Baptist Church, brings this appeal to review a judgment of the circuit court sustaining the denial of its application for a permit to demolish a building. The building is a two and one-half story structure described as a “double entry town house.” It sits on a town lot located at the southeast corner of Lafayette and Mississippi Avenues in the City of St. Louis and was acquired by the church for approximately $3600 at a foreclosure sale in September of 1973. The church acquired the property to convert it into a parking lot for use by members…