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Built in 1907-1909, this Collegiate Gothic Revival-style chapel was designed by Cope and Stewardson to serve as a chapel for Washington University in St. Louis. The building features a rough-hewn red granite exterior with limestone trim, a crenellated parapet, limestone pinnacles, octagonal towers at the corners, gothic stained glass windows with tracery, buttresses at the side elevations, and quoins. The building is a contributing structure in the Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1987.
Built in 1913, this Egyptian Revival-style building was likely designed by Charles Brunk for the Mt. Moriah Temple Association, a Masonic lodge. The building features a stucco-clad exterior with large pillars at the corners, a hipped roof with exposed rafter tails, decorative Egyptian reliefs, a front wing with an Egyptian cornice and two obelisks, Egyptian pylon-shaped entrance surrounds, casement windows, and staircases flanking the front wing of the building. The building presently houses a private religious school.
This is the back alley behind my apartment at night. Oddly enough, even though I took 8 shots of this, trying out different exposures, it was the first one that came out the best.
St Louis skyline composite. Base image is a 30 second exposure at night of the skyline from across the river. I overlaid some clouds from the previous night, the moon from about a month earlier and added reflection into the river by flipping a layer with high transparency. I also cloned out the telephone lines - actually I did a fair poor job on the telephone lines there is some "trailing" in the clouds.
Built in 1936, this Art Deco-style structure was designed by William C. E. Becker to serve as a botanical conservatory, known variously as the Jewel Box, the St. Louis Floral Conservatory, and the City of St. Louis Floral Display House. The building features a stair-stepped roof with nine sections, glass exterior walls, a stone base, arched trusses inside, a stone vestibule with fluted pilasters and medallions, and a one-story rear stone service wing. Inside, the building houses various plants that do not naturally grow in the St. Louis region, with a fountain in the center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Built in 1884-1898, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by Thomas Walsh and Henry Switzer to serve as a Roman Catholic parish church for the growing Midtown and Grand Center area of the city of St. Louis, as well as a church for the adjacent Saint Louis University, which moved to Midtown in the 1880s. The building features a rough-hewn limestone exterior, gothic arched stained glass windows with decorative tracery, a rose window at the east facade of the building, a tall bell tower with a stone roof, clock faces, and large louvered openings at the northeast corner of the building, circular clerestory stained glass windows at the sides of the nave, a front-gable roof, stone pinnacles, a semi-circular apse, and gothic arched portals at the east facade of the building. The building is a contributing structure in the Midtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and remains in active use as a Roman Catholic parish church.
Built in 1909, this Viennese Secessionist-style house was designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes and Barnett for J. W. Thompson. The house is a rare example of the Vienna Secession outside of Europe. Closely affiliated with the Art Nouveau movement, another aesthetic trend rarely seen in the United States, the house was originally more elaborate, complete with ornate balconies and decorative trim on the four green marble pillars of the front facade, which were removed when the house was butchered by a subsequent owner, whom found them gaudy, reducing the house to a plain box, with the missing elements being partially reconstructed by an owner in the 1980s, though with less ornament and detail than the originals. The house is clad in yellow buff brick with large window bays containing casement windows, limestone and green serpentinite marble trim, a one-story sunroom on the west side of the house, clad in limestone, with decorative reliefs, a front terrace with circular planters atop stone piers, and a decorative frieze around the building’s parapet. Despite the house’s immense architectural significance, it is not designated as a historic landmark, and the unfortunate alterations, though partially reversed, have diminished the beauty, authenticity, and complexity of the house’s original design.
Built in 1936, this Art Deco-style structure was designed by William C. E. Becker to serve as a botanical conservatory, known variously as the Jewel Box, the St. Louis Floral Conservatory, and the City of St. Louis Floral Display House. The building features a stair-stepped roof with nine sections, glass exterior walls, a stone base, arched trusses inside, a stone vestibule with fluted pilasters and medallions, and a one-story rear stone service wing. Inside, the building houses various plants that do not naturally grow in the St. Louis region, with a fountain in the center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
It was such a beautiful day in St. Louis. Good weather, Good food and great family!
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Built in 1910, this Sullivanesque and Chicago School-style building was designed by Theodore C. Link to serve as the home of the Roberts, Johnson and Rand Shoe Company, which later became part of the International Shoe Company. The building features a limestone-clad exterior with a terra cotta cornice and column capitals, one-over-one double-hung windows, chamfered engaged columns, rectilinear corner pilasters, storefronts with decorative copper spandrels at the base, a large vertical blade sign mounted on the facade, and an art deco stone facade at the main entrance to the upper floors of the building, which was added during a renovation in the early 1930s. The building is a contributing structure in the Washington Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and has been rehabilitated for adaptive reuse as The Last Hotel St. Louis.
Built in 1963, this Modern building was designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum to house a planetarium for the Saint Louis Science Center. The building features a thin-shell concrete hyperboloid roof, similar in shape to the cooling towers of large power stations, with a large flared top, sloped sides, a wrap-around porch with tapered columns, and a lower-level entrance flanked by curved retaining walls. The building is the most distinctive portion of the Saint Louis Science Center, which straddles Interstate 64 on the south side of Forest Park.