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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 1904, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by Cass Gilbert as the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a World’s Fair. The building features a marble and buff roman brick exterior, with arched window bays, a front portico with corinthian columns, porticoes at the end bays of the front facade with ionic columns and pediments, a cornice with modillions and dentils, a central gabled roof with arched clerestory windows, decorative stone and gold sculptures, and doric pilasters. The building was extended with a southern addition in the late 20th Century, which features ribbon windows, a terraced massing, sloped glass skylights, and decorative patterned brickwork. The building was further expanded between 2009 and 2013 to the east with a new addition, designed by Sir David Chipperfield and HOK, which features a gridded concrete roof structure with multiple skylight apertures, glass curtain walls, precast polished concrete panels, reveals at the base, and large terraces, with the addition being designed so as to blend into the surrounding landscape and defer to the historic adjacent museum building. Today, the museum building is one of several remnants of the 1904 World’s Fair, and is one of many cultural amenities within Forest Park in St. Louis.
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.
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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.