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For example, Downtown St. Louis is generally thought to include the St. Louis Union Station and Enterprise Center, even though Downtown technically ends at Tucker Avenue (12th Street). Additionally, the Fox Theatre and Powell Symphony Hall are popularly considered a part of Midtown St. Louis even though they are in Grand Center.
Carr Square is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is bounded by Cass Avenue on the north, Carr Street on the south, North Tucker Boulevard and North 13th Street on the east, and North Jefferson on the west.
By the 1830s, St. Louis had grown beyond the ability of many of its residents to walk conveniently throughout the town. [2] In 1838, brief mention is made in historical records of a private horse-drawn cab service in the city, followed in 1843 by the beginning of an omnibus service by entrepreneur Erastus Wells in partnership with an investor named Calvin Case. [2]
The St. Louis region’s port system is the second-largest inland port system in the United States, and was ranked the most efficient port system by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The St. Louis regional port system is responsible for 8% of the 855 miles of the Mississippi River, but carries one-third of the river’s total freight. [42]
In St. Louis, the section between Interstate 44 and Route 366 is part of historic U.S. Route 66 and is marked as such. In the St. Louis area, it is known as Gravois Avenue or Gravois Road . Further south, Gravois Rd. is used to mark the old section of the highway where the newer, divided highway rerouted Highway 30.
Lindell Boulevard in the neighborhood of King's Highway, Lake Avenue and the main entrance to Forest Park, as sketched by Marguerite Martyn for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 22, 1905 The neighborhood's boundaries are Union Boulevard and the eastern portion of Forest Park on the west, I-64 / US 40 on the south, Delmar Boulevard on the ...
The Illinois garage opened in 1984 and is roughly 1.4 miles (2.3 km) from the 29th Street rail yard in East St. Louis. The 287,255 square foot facility serves buses that run on routes sponsored by the St. Clair County Transit District. [15]
Peabody–Darst–Webbe, St. Louis, neighborhood to the east of Lafayette Square; Soulard, St. Louis, nearby area with a large public market; Streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri, an early means of mass transit, to and from Lafayette Square; Tower Grove Park, the large park constructed on private land, now public, a short distance west of ...