Three bdrm, top floor apt. with private entrance in our home. Roomy, comfy, well-furnished with everything you need. Walk to Pageant, Delmar Hall, WashU, Blueberry Hill, Salt&Smoke, MagicMiniGolf. CVS, grocery, restaurants and shops on the Delmar Loop. Or stroll our leafy streets to Forest Park, built 1904 for a World’s Fair, now a first-class museum, zoo, golf course, boat rental. Easy access via metro train or Uber/Lyft to airport, baseball, hockey, live music clubs, City Museum, the Arch. Our sunny, roomy 2200 square foot apartment takes up the entire top floor of this two-family home in a friendly residential neighborhood. Private separate entrance from the front porch. Free street parking out front. Owners on premises. Plenty of fresh air. Balcony front and back. We have three bedrooms, one bath with shower and whirlpool tub, central heat and air conditioning, Wi-Fi, full kitchen, big sunny living room, full dining with roomy table. Backyard patio and garden. Kitchen includes all appliances plus coffeemaker, microwave, blender, toaster. Plenty of pots and pans. Washer and dryer, iron, ironing board. On the walls are several pieces of original art by Marilyn Ciafone Olson as well as photography from Reed Radcliffe. There are also numerous pictures involving St. Louis history and St. Louis music. Plenty of reading material including “That St. Louis Thing,” by Bruce Olson, the story of the city’s music, politics and civil rights. A homey experience on a quiet, tree-lined street awaits your arrival. Good for singles, couples and groups up to 7. TV with Netflix, HBO, PBS, Roku. An old school stereo and plenty of classic vinyl. All three of the beds have new mattresses and the extra beds are comfy futons. Top floor apartment access from street via stairs from front porch entrance of the house. We will greet you and show you the apartment unless otherwise arranged. We are a retired couple who live downstairs from your apartment and are home most days. We are both fully vaccinated against COVID. We welcome couples, singles, families. We welcome the LGBTQ community. To us, diversity makes life interesting. We assume guests prefer to keep to themselves but we are a pair of former journalists who enjoy people so don't be shy. We are very knowledgeable about our city. Bruce Olson is the author of the cultural history "That St. Louis Thing," and is a great resource for all things St. Louis, past and present. Marilyn Ciafone is a retired journalist and teacher whose original oil paintings are displayed throughout the apartment. We are in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, a residential area of stately brick houses and apartment buildings built shortly after the 1904 World's Fair. Our house dates from 1911. The neighborhood is rated the safest in the city and is known as one of the most diverse, vital and livable areas in St. Louis, sitting in the thriving central corridor near new tech development, the downtown, Soulard to the south and just east of St. Louis County. We are just a few blocks from the main campus of Washington University, University City and a 10-minute drive to downtown Clayton, a modern suburb just to our west. The Pageant and Delmar Hall are just a two block walk on the Delmar Loop. Further down the street is Blueberry Hill with its famed Duck Room, where Chuck Berry played every month for years. The Loop, rated one of America's great streets, also features a newly expanded independent bookstore, a bowling alley, independent retail shops of all kinds, a rooftop bar at the Moonrise Hotel and restaurants for every taste. Also in walking or biking distance is Forest Park, where you find trails, three free museums in (St. Louis Museum, Missouri History Museum and Kemper Museum), a boathouse, a free world-class zoo, an outdoor theater, tennis courts, three nine-hole golf courses, all in a beautiful setting that was once the 1904 World's Fair grounds. And don’t forget to explore the Central West End, another bustling St. Louis neighborhood where you’ll find movies, bars, restaurants and music clubs in an historic setting. Outside our neighborhood the city is packed with attractions. We have easy Metro access to the Gateway Arch, the Arch Shop and Museum and the new walkway along the Mississippi River, the Dome at America’s Center for conventions and concerts, the National Blues Museum, Busch Stadium and the St. Louis Cardinals, Ballpark Village, and the new St. Louis Wheel and Aquarium at the historic, remodeled Union Station. A major league soccer team is due in 2023 in a new downtown stadium right on the Metro line. From our house you can easily get to Barnes-Jewish Medical Center, Washington University Medical Center, Saint Louis Medical Center, Children's Hospital, SSM St. Mary's Hospital and Mercy Hospital. Don’t forget to visit the Anhauser Busch St. Louis Brewery (North American headquarters for the world’s biggest brewer) and see the Clydesdales, have a free beer and take a tour. For the kids there is the Magic House, the Citygarden fountain (for some summer splashing) and the City Museum. Other attractions include the Museum of Relgious Art at St. Louis University, the spectacular Central Basilica, the Pulitzer Arts Center, the Old Courthouse (now connected to the Arch by a quiet park). And don’t forget to get a dose of music history at the Scott Jopklin House. There’s so much to do you will want to visit us more than once! We are near two MetroLink train stations (two blocks away from the Red line, six blocks from the Blue line). These provide quick access to Lambert Airport, the Gateway Arch, Busch Stadium, Scottrade Center, Stifel Theatre and the Dome at America’s Center. Downtown and West County. Bus routes 1, 2, 16, 97. We sit in the center of the metro area so just about anywhere you want to go is within a half-hour drive. Uber, Lyft and Yellow Cab available. Free on-street parking. As former residents of New York, Washington DC, Seattle and Baltimore we understand city life. Please ask if you have additional questions. Parking is free on the street in our neighborhood. Short walk to the Pageant, the Delmar Loop, Wash U and Forest Park. Shuttle bus to Wash U campus directly across the street. The MetroLink transit center of trains and buses is located two blocks away. Downtown is a 20 minute train ride to Busch Stadium and other venues.