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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.
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 1929, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Preston J. Bradshaw to serve as the Lennox Hotel, and was the tallest hotel in the city of St. Louis at the time of its completion. The hotel remained open until the 1970s, when the aging facilities and competition from newer hotels put the Lennox out of business. In 2002, the hotel was renovated and reopened as the Renaissance St. Louis Suites Hotel, which remained open until financial problems brought on by the Great Recession forced its closure in 2011. The hotel was subsequently sold, and was renovated between 2013 and 2015, reopening as the Courtyard St. Louis Downtown-Convention Center. The building is clad in buff brick with terra cotta trim, terra cotta cladding at the facade of the first three floors, two-over-two windows, a decorative metal canopy at the corner entrance to the building, a stucco-clad penthouse, cornice with dentils and brackets at the top of the building, decorative sculptural reliefs and pediments, and festoons at the top of the base of the building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and remains in operation as the Courtyard St. Louis Downtown-Convention Center.
Built in 1890-1891, this Chicago School-style skyscraper was designed by Adler and Sullivan for Ellis Wainwright to house the offices of the St. Louis Brewers Association. The building was the first skyscraper to break from traditional architectural styles, utilizing ornament that fit the scale of the building, and taking advantage of the steel frame and masonry curtain wall to create a building that embraced the skyscraper form through its design, rather than trying to make the skyscraper fit the box of previous traditional architectural styles, and is widely regarded as being the most precedent-setting building designed by Sullivan. The 10-story, 135 foot (41 meter) tall building features a tripartite exterior composed of a base, shaft, and capital, which was a novel facade treatment, but was highly influential. The building eschewed classical ornament in favor of Sullivanesque ornament inspired by natural forms, as well as the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. The building originally housed retail space on the ground floor, with offices above, with many tenants in the building in addition to the St. Louis Brewers Association.
The building is clad in red brick with terra cotta trim and ornament, with a decorative frieze at the top of the building with small oxeye windows, an overhanging cornice at the crown of the building, recessed ornamented spandrel panels, and decorative brick pilasters, one-over-one double-hung windows, a glass curtain wall on the north facade, added in the 1980s, a relatively simple and unadorned base, large storefront openings at the base of the building, recessed doorways with decorative trim surrounds, natural and geometric ornamental motifs, and brick pilasters between the window bays with decorative bases and capitals. The interior has been heavily modified, with several renovations in the 20th Century removing most original elements and features, and it features a very standard modern office interior.
The building has housed office space for much of its history, though it was threatened with demolition during the late 20th Century. It was saved in large part thanks to the intervention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, though several neighboring buildings that formed an intact ensemble of late 19th Century architecture were demolished, robbing the building of its context. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968, owing to its major architectural and historical significance. The building presently serves as an office building for the State of Missouri.
Former Lemp Brewery, Cherokee Street, St Loius. Once the biggest brewery in St Louis it is built upon a complex of natural caves which were once used for the lagering of beer. William J. Lemp took over the business and purchased the property that would become the Lemp Brewery industrial complex in 1864. The Brewery consists of 27 buildings. The Brewery closed with Prohibition in 1919 and the complex was purchased by the International Shoe Company in 1922 who occupied it until approximately 1980. Since then it has been semi-occupied by various tenants for light industrial, commercial, and warehousing uses, office space, and artist studios.
An image used in the documentary film The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History.
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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.
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.
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The Wainwright Building, 709 Chestnut Street. Designed by Louis Sullivan and completed in 1892, one of the first skyscrapers.
Downtown St Louis with the Old Courthouse, seen from the Observation Deck of the Gateway Arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
This amazing Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV was at St. Louis Motorsports in Chesterfield, Missouri.
Former Lemp Brewery, Cherokee Street, St Loius. Once the biggest brewery in St Louis it is built upon a complex of natural caves which were once used for the lagering of beer. William J. Lemp took over the business and purchased the property that would become the Lemp Brewery industrial complex in 1864. The Brewery consists of 27 buildings. The Brewery closed with Prohibition in 1919 and the complex was purchased by the International Shoe Company in 1922 who occupied it until approximately 1980. Since then it has been semi-occupied by various tenants for light industrial, commercial, and warehousing uses, office space, and artist studios.
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.