OLD NORTH, NEW PROSPECTS
Sep 28, 2021
4 minutes
BY NICHOLAS PHILLIPS
Photography by
Kevin A. Roberts
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to Margaret Goldsmith about Old North roughly seven years ago, she says. Her primary residence at the time was Indianapolis. (Her ex-husband had served as mayor there.) She wasn’t even from St. Louis. Born into a family with a newspaper fortune, Goldsmith had grown up in Washington, D.C. Still, she had a connection to Old North, that small neighborhood less than a mile north of downtown that’s best known for Crown Candy Kitchen. Through some friends, she had met Daniel Blash, a Pentecostal pastor who preached at Fresh Anointing Church, at 14th Street and Sullivan. She came to town, heard his sermons, got to know some folks. Then one day, she says, the Lord
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