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St. Louis City Hall was designed by architects Eckel & Mann, the winners of a national competition. [1] Construction began in 1891 and completed in 1898. Its profile and stylistic characteristics evoke the French Renaissance Hôtel de Ville, Paris , with an elaborate interior decorated with marble and gold trim.
Bob Biderman (1940–2018) [1] was a British-American novelist and publisher known for his coming-of-age novels, Red Dreams – an obverse view of 50s America – and Letters to Nanette, about a young man drafted into the army at the start of the Vietnam War. Biderman is considered one of the wave of literary oppositionists who were active in ...
The St. Louis Reparations Commission was created by St. Louis, Missouri Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, the first African-American woman to hold the mayoralty, by Executive Order in December 2022 to develop the city's plan for reparations for slavery. The Commission consists of nine members, eight of whom are black. [1]
Charles Keemle compiled and published the first series of directories for St. Louis from 1836 to 1841 known as Keemle's St. Louis Directory They contained residential and business directories, advertising directories, and statistical information related to government officers and services, tariffs, postage rates, insurance carriers, social societies and organizations.
Biderman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Biderman, sociologist who proposed Biderman's Chart of Coercion in 1957; Ann Biderman (born 1961), American writer; Bob Biderman (1940–2018), British-American novelist; Charles Biderman (born 1946), American businessman and investor; Dovid Biderman (1746–1814), Polish rabbi
The St. Louis Car Company occupied its 52-acre (210,000 m 2) site in 1898 after moving from 3300 North Broadway and in 1899 Paulus Gast opened his brewery on Hornsby Avenue. He had previously operated a wine company and a vineyard.
The city and the St. Louis Police Officers Association, led by Jeff Roorda, denied the lawsuit's allegations. [44] Several African American women district attorneys, including Marilyn Mosby and Aramis Ayala , traveled to St. Louis to demonstrate support for Gardner, declaring that she has been targeted by a "fundamentally racist" system which ...
Proposition R (2012) was a charter amendment passed in November 2012 to reduce the number of city of St. Louis alderpersons from 28 to 14. It was slated to take place 10 years in the future (effective January 1, 2022) and was passed by city voters on November 6, 2012, with 61 percent voting in favor (60 percent was needed for passage). [2]