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Built in 1890, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style house was built as the residence of businessman Alexander Euston, who found great success in selling white lead and linseed oil. The building features a rough-hewn stone exterior, a cylindrical corner tower and a cylindrical corner turret, both of which feature conical roofs, finials atop the dormers and conical roofs, a hipped roof, wall dormers, and a bay window on the front facade. The building is a contributing structure in the Midtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and today serves as the New Student Visit Center for Saint Louis University.
Built in 1885-1887, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style house was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson for prominent lawyer Isaac H. Lionberger. The house is clad in red brick with a side-gable roof, gabled dormers on the front facade, two-over-two and one-over-one double-hung windows, a roman arched entrance to the front vestibule with decorative carved stone trim on either side, decorative brickwork and brick corbeling, and walls that taper outwards towards the base of the house. The building is a contributing structure in the Midtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and today, is the only surviving building designed by Richardson in St. Louis, with the other two buildings, one of which was built for Lionberger’s father, having been demolished when the Romanesque Revival style fell out of favor in the mid-20th Century.
This was taken from the top of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Collinsville, Illinois.
Built in 1900-1902, this Collegiate Gothic Revival-style building was designed by Cope and Stewardson to serve as the main administrative building for Washington University in St. Louis, and served as the main headquarters for the 1904 World’s Fair. The building features a rough-hewn red granite exterior with limestone trim, gabled slate roofs, large chimneys stacks, oriel windows, one-over-one windows, a central pavilion with octagonal towers featuring crenellated parapets, a breezeway at the central bay of the first floor of the central pavilion with a limestone gothic vaulted roof and gothic arched openings, wrought iron light fixtures, and a large front terrace. The building is the most prominent structure on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, and today houses offices, as well as the Department of English. 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.
photo by Geoffrey Goldberg
Saw Jeff Beck at the fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis on Thursday night. Fantastic show as Jeff only gets better as he gets older. As my friend Phil pointed out, there may be guitarist you like more, but there are no guitarists better than Jeff Beck.
Saint Louis had its heyday as a city long, long ago. Currently, a trip to the downtown area is like visiting an odd and empty museum of massive vacant buildings.
The occasional club, trendy restaurant, art gallery, or block of re-habbed lofts seems to promise a revival, but in the case of this city, it's a pessimistic hope.
Clearly not a purist, I just wanted to take the material from the photos of an afternoon downtown and somehow bring out the ornate but giant emptiness of some of the buildings, as well as exploit a shifting sky.
Red decides whether or not she wants to make the long trek down the musical slide at the City Museum in St. Louis.
I could hear her calling for help, but I could not see her. Another woman called out to her and soon came to her aid. It took some time to free her from the mud bank. She was heading over to the river to wash her legs off. All in a day near a rivers edge. (Glad to be walking again on the beach).