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Built in 1892-1893, this Chicago School-style skyscraper was designed by Adler and Sullivan for the Union Trust Company, a bank. The building, a follow-up to the more famous Wainwright Building one block to the south, is considered to be a more pure expression of Louis Sullivan’s design philosophy than the Wainwright Building, though the later Guaranty Building (Buffalo, New York, 1896) is perhaps the most pure expression of Sullivan’s ideas applied to a surviving skyscraper. The building bears some similarities to the nearby Wainwright Building, but features a tan exterior, light court that is open to the front facade, and has been more heavily modified.
The building originally featured an ornate first and second floor facade with an arched entryway, rich Sullivanesque ornament, and oxeye windows, which was unfortunately removed during a modernization in 1924, and was replaced with new terra cotta cladding, rectilinear bays, and a rectilinear entrance, which were given Sullivanesque trim surrounds, but bear little resemblance to the original exterior facade. The only unmodified section of the first and second floor facade is along the west elevation, where the original elliptical oxeye window bays are intact, but this facade is simpler, with buff brick cladding and no ornament. Around the same time as the renovation of the base of the facade, a four-bay addition was built on the north side of the building along 7th Street, which bears many of the same features as the original building. Above the second floor, the original exterior is intact, with buff brick cladding and piers, a bay window in the back of the central light well, arched windows on the twelfth floor, and ornament including lion’s head gargoyles, and motifs inspired by flora on the thirteenth and fourteenth floors, which feature window bays separated by engaged columns, terminating in a heavily decorated flared cornice. Inside, the building features a lobby with a restored ceiling and stained glass skylight, as well as the original elevator doors and elevator landings with marble wall cladding.
The building was designated a St. Louis Landmark in 1971, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The building served as offices until the early 21st Century, with multiple alterations prior to that. Between 2015 and 2018, the building was rehabilitated to house the Hotel St. Louis, which continues to operate inside the building. Regrettably, the renovation did not include a restoration of the first and second floors of the building’s facade, but it saved the rest of the building’s historic details, and gave it a new purpose.
Winter view of truck driving under "Welcome to St. Louis" sign at the entrance of the Municipal Bridge (now the MacArthur Bridge). Photograph, ca. 1917. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. Swekosky-MHS Collection. n39088.
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Built in 1859-1867, this Gothic Revival-style building was designed by Leopold Eidlitz and Jerome B. Legg to serve as the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. The building’s oldest sections, dating to the original period of construction, are clad in buff sandstone, with a gabled slate roof, buttresses, lancet stained glass windows, lower aisles flanking a central higher nave, and trefoil windows at the gable ends. Between 1893 and 1895, a smaller sandstone chapel was added to the south side of the building, which features a gabled roof, blind gothic arched bays, and a low front wing with a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet. Between 1910 and 1912, the church was renovated with the addition of a porch with three gothic arched portal entrances, a square tower with an octagonal belfry featuring stone pinnacles, and a gable parapet were added to the principal facade of the building. The building serves as the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
Bison emerge from a hollow in an historically accurate but graphically unusual Missouri temperate deciduous forest.
Built in 1924-1925, this Collegiate Gothic Revival-style building was designed by Jamieson and Spearl to house the Geography and Geology departments of Washington University in St. Louis. The building features a rough-hewn red granite exterior with limestone trim, a central tall pavilion with octagonal corner towers, a crenellated parapet, decorative limestone surround at the front door, limestone buttresses, large banks of windows on the second floor, and gothic arched windows on the second floor of the south facade. The building today houses the Biology, Philosophy, and the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Departments, and 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.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Congressman William Clay cut the ribbon during the dedication of the NASS building March 28 in Westport, Mo.
St. Louis photographer Carmen Troesser donates her time to capture the spirit of homeless teens for the Do1Thing project. do1http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://thing.org.
Melaney Walz is a 21-year old mother who has lived in Covenant House in Philadelphia, Pa, Atlantic City, NJ and St. Louis, Mo. She has an 11-month-old son, Marshawn and is five months pregnant with a daughter.
It is the goal of Do1Thing to empower homeless youth to move themselves from homelessness to a permanent housing. Empowerment comes by outfitting the teens with training, items and supplies needed to overcome their current situations move forward.
We partner with Covenant House International, the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth. Our second partner is StandUp for Kids. The mission of StandUp for Kids is to help homeless and street kids.
They do this, every day, in cities across America, carrying out their mission through volunteers who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives.
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Built in 1926-1928, this Art Deco-style skyscraper was designed by E. M. Tucker and Mauran, Russell and Crowell as the first phase of a planned larger structure to serve as the headquarters of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with the rest of the planned structure never being completed. The building is clad in terra cotta with pinnacles, parapets with curved details, and buttresses and pilasters flanking the windows, large storefronts on the first floor with decorative transoms, and granite cladding at the base. The entrance bay to the building, located at a two-story podium, features an arched parapet with an eagle sculpture and sculptural reliefs above the recessed doorway. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Built in 1896, this 17-story Chicago School-style skyscraper was designed by Henry Ives Cobb for the Chemical National Bank. The building's first and second floor facades were manufactured by the The Christopher & Simpson Architectural Iron and Foundry Company, while the Terra Cotta cladding on the upper portion of the building was manufactured by the Winkle Terra Cotta Company. The building was expanded in 1902 with a seamless addition designed by Mauran, Russell and Garden. The building features a base called in stamped metal panels with floral motifs, forming decorated spandrels, pilasters, and brackets, with Chicago windows on the second floor, and multiple storefronts on the ground floor. Above the base, the building is clad in red brick with terra cotta trim, one-over-one windows, oriel windows, belt coursing, a cornice with modillions and dentils, and arched windows on the 17th floor. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and has sat vacant for a little over a decade, with several proposals to turn the building into apartments and an expansion of the Hotel St. Louis next door being floated during that time.
Opened in 1997, the City Museum was founded by artist Bob Cassilly, and his wife, Gail Cassilly, to serve as an art and architectural museum with a very whimsical theme, featuring multiple tunnels, decorative architectural ornament relics, art installations, slides, staircases, and various other exhibits, attractions, and installations. The museum is housed in the former International Shoe Company Annex, built in 1931, which is a contributing structure in the Washington Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Built in 1908-1911, this Beaux Arts-style building was designed by Issac S. Taylor to house the Municipal Courts of the City of St. Louis. The building features a limestone-clad exterior with a rusticated gray granite base, engaged fluted doric columns, doric pilasters, one-over-one double-hung windows, decorative carved reliefs, a cornice with modillions, a parapet with a balustrade, decorative stone sculptures, arched transoms above the main entrance doors, a large set of stone steps up to the main entrance from Market Street, and six light wells inside the building, providing light and air to most interior spaces. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, and is presently vacant.
Gateway Arch from the sorth pond, St. Louis, Missouri; summer, on a stormy afternoon; Eero Saarinen design
Lafayette Park. View of fountain with men, women, and children on surrounding path. Photograph by Emil Boehl, 1872. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. Parks. n23950.
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.
Cased pair of percussion pistols made by John Manton and Sons, London, ca. 1830. Missouri History Museum.
As Americans came into St. Louis following the Louisiana Purchase, they brought the violent and deadly practice of dueling with them. Soon, dueling became accepted by many of the city’s new American elites, and law enforcement officials tended to look the other way.