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Four lunettes in the dome have paintings by Carl Wimar, depicting four events in St. Louis history. Ettore Miragoli painted over them in 1880, but they were restored in 1888. Louis Brandeis was admitted to the bar in the Old Courthouse, in 1878. [9] When St. Louis County, Missouri and the city split in 1877, the courthouse became city property ...
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...
Statue of Thomas Jefferson, South Entrance. The exterior of the Missouri State Capitol is notable for its architectural features: the Baroque dome, loosely modeled after St. Peter’s basilica in Rome, rising 238 feet (73 m) above ground level, topped by sculptor Sherry Fry’s bronze statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture; the eight 48-foot (15 m) columns on the south portico; the ...
The Capitol's west front during the Inauguration of Joe Biden, January 20, 2021 President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. The Capitol and the grounds of Capitol Hill have played host to major events, including presidential inaugurations, which are held every four years. During an ...
The museum has over 30,000 artifacts in its collection, including the largest collections of Missouri Civil War battle flags and World War I flags. [1] The history wing of the museum was originally the only part of the museum and is now in the eastern wing of the capitol building. In 1921, the Missouri Resources Museum was founded and placed in ...
Marquette Building (St. Louis) Marquette Hotel (St. Louis) Maryland Hotel; Mayfair Hotel (St. Louis, Missouri) McKinley Classical Leadership Academy; Medium Security Institution; Merchants Exchange Building (St. Louis) Metro Academic and Classical High School; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum; Millennium Hotel St. Louis; Mississippi Valley Trust ...
The history of St. Louis, Missouri from 1804 to 1865 included the creation of St. Louis as the territorial capital of the Louisiana Territory, a brief period of growth until the Panic of 1819 and subsequent depression, rapid diversification of industry after the introduction of the steamboat and the return of prosperity, and rising tensions about the issues of immigration and slavery.