The Tiffany neighborhood, as well as present day Shaw and Botanical Heights neighborhoods, were originally part of the common fields laid out by the French stretching West of Grand Avenue.

These included the Cul-de-Sac Common, the St. Louis Common to the North and the Prairie des Noyers which was laid out in 1769, to the South. During this early period, Grand Boulevard was far beyond the edge of the settlement of St. Louis.

By the 1860s, much of the northern area, including what is now the Tiffany neighborhood, had become the property of Mrs. Mary McRee. Except for a few houses on the perimeter streets, most of the land was made up of meadows and cornfields. Some industry had begun to develop towards the railroads to the north and in McRee City (now Forest Park Southwest), but for the most part the area remained undeveloped.

This began to change in 1888 when Mary McRee sold her land to a developer. Dundee Place was developed in 1889 after Colonel Thomas A. Scott purchased it from William McRee for $448,000. It covered an area of 138 acres and a portion of this tarct was subdivided by Mrs. Mary McRee and named "McRee City." In 1869 a large subdivision, called McRee City was developed by Mrs. Mary McRee, widow of Colonel Samuel McRee, who died in the cholera epidemic of 1849. McRee's subdivision was timed to take advantage of the arrival of horsecarriage lines in the Shaw neighborhood and the presence of the Pacific Railroad which had been laid along the northern edge of the area in the 1850's.

With the completion of the Grand Avenue Viaduct in 1890 and electrified streetcar lines by the turn of the century, the area was transformed into a middle-class commuter suburb. The Tiffany neighborhood takes its name for one of these streetcar lines, called the Tiffany line, which connected transit offices and shops at 39th Street, then called Tiffany Street, and Park with Chouteau Avenue

The Grand Avenue Bridge, a 700 foot long suspension bridge built in 1891. It once crossed the Mill Creek valley but was wrecked for "urban renewel" in 1962

Today, solid brick two-story homes, many of them two-family, give the Tiffany Neighborhood its character. Many of the settled homeowners like it for the nearby private grade and high schools, for the world class Missouri Botanical Garden just a five-minute bike ride to the West, the wonderful neighborhood Tiffany Park and playground, and immediate acess to Interstate 44 and to the rest of the Metro area.

The multi-cultural homeowners and a strong Tiffany Community Association constitute a vibrant and active force for revitalization, while the neighboring businesses and the newly formed Botanical Heights Neighborhood give assurance that the Tiffany Neighborhood is a vital and important partner in the in the renewal of city revitalization.