Location

The Capistrano is located in the Tower Grove South neighborhood, which encompasses Grand Oak Hill and Tower Grove Heights in South St. Louis. Grand Oak Hill is bound by Kingshighway on the west, Grand Avenue on the east, Arsenal on the north and Chippewa on the south.

History

In the past decade, Grand Oak Hill and nearby Tower Grove Heights have experienced a rebirth. Most of the credit for this can be given to the community's devoted residents who have been buying and renovating property surrounding their homes. Tower Grove Heights is recognized as a National Historic District and has been featured in Realtor magazine.

The site currently known as Grand Oak Hill was originally purchased in 1805. Throughout the 1800s the land provided coal and clay deposits and became home to a mining and manufacturing company. Much of the land remained rural until the late 1890s and early 1900s, when one of Grand Oak Hill's first subdivisions, Tower Grove Heights, began to develop.

Community

This burgeoning neighborhood has all of life's necessities.

• 20-plus restaurants-from Middle Eastern and Asian fare to American and European cuisine
• Convenient local merchants are only a short walk away
  -- pharmacy
  -- grocery
  -- hair salon
  -- Laundromat
  -- hardware store
  -- post office
  -- many retail outlets
• Public and private elementary, middle and high schools
  -- Mann Elementary School
  -- Oakhill Elementary School
  -- Holy Family Elementary School
  -- St. Johns Lutheran Elementary School
  -- St. Pius V Catholic Elementary School
  -- Fanning Middle School
  -- Roosevelt High School
  -- St. Elizabeth's Girls Academy (high school)
• Carpenter Library , St. Louis City Library's most frequented branch
• Tower Grove Park , one of the city's oldest and most beautiful parks

Tower Grove Heights Neighborhood Association