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I'll be flying to India later today. Plan to do some traveling in the north with my brother for a few days before heading home. I'll catch up with you guys then. Have a nice week. Home, here I come :)
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.
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.
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.
It was such a beautiful day in St. Louis. Good weather, Good food and great family!
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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.
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.