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The engineer of Manufacturers Railway Company MP15DC # 254 is bathed in late afternoon light, as he switches the repair tracks of the company, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, MO. The company uses three MP15DC and three SW1500 locomotives to serve the brewery complex, along with several other customers in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Built in 1898, this Romanesque Revival-style structure was designed by Harvey Ellis to serve as a water tower for the St. Louis Water System. The 179 foot (55 meter) tall tower is clad in buff brick with a rusticated limestone base, a cylindrical stair tower with a conical roof on the northwest corner, lower towers on the other corners at the base of the structure, a tall domed roof, roman arched and rectilinear bays with stone headers, a large staircase leading up to the recessed entrance portal, and a now-closed observation deck below the dome. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The tower fell into disuse in 1929, when advancements in the systems of the St. Louis Waterworks no longer required the use of standpipes, but remains standing as a decorative monument in Compton Hill Reservoir Park.
The St. Louis arch captures the spirit of discovery and pursuit of the promise of a better life. Thomas Jefferson opened the West to the American people after the Louisiana Purchase. The pioneers who would go on to explore the new land would define the landscape of our country for years to come.
Rhubarb and Blueberry Crumble
Winslow's Home
St. Louis, Missouri
(June 21, 2013)
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Built in 1902, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Theodore Link for the congregation of St. John Methodist church, established in 1848. The building was constructed in an area that, at the time, was developing as a rather affluent suburban district within the city of St. Louis, and was the result of the church following members of its congregation as they moved westward from their previous neighborhoods closer to Downtown, with the church eventually shuttering due to declining attendance in 2007. The building is clad in limestone with an L-shaped footprint, two-story porticoes with ionic columns on the north and east facades, a tower with ionic pilasters and a domed roof at the intersection of the building’s north and east wings, arched stained glass window bays, two low domes atop pylons flanking the north portico, and an educational wing on the west side of the building. The building is a contributing structure in the Holy Corners Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Today, the church houses an antiques auction house.