In the Riverview section the survey tracts extended from the river westwardly beyond the present City Limits. Among owners in this area were William Carr Lane, first mayor of St. Louis, Nicholas A. Destrehan, Samuel B. Wiggins and Amadee Valle. Resubdivision began at the southern end of Riverview in the early 1870's with the partition of the Paschall H. St. Cyr estate and Prospect Hill. In the early 1890's, coincidental with the opening of the waterworks at Chain of Rocks, there was a renewal of subdivision activity on a limited scale. Subdivisions which now contain most of the houses on the bluff side are Riverview Gardens, platted in 1917-19, and the Glasgow Woods subdivision of 1928.
Housing here is principally single family dwellings along the sides and on top of the bluffs.
Most of these date from the 1920's and 1930's and are owner occupied.