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Charles Leiper Grigg originally founded the 7 Up company and died in 1940 after which his son, Hamblett Charles Grigg, succeeded him. The company had been renting space in the Shell Building since 1943 but the younger Grigg commissioned Hugo K. Graf to design a prominent headquarters in St. Louis to raise the profile of what was then the third largest soft drink company.
formerly the St. Louis Mart and Terminal Warehouse 106: St. Louis News Company: St. Louis News Company: September 16, 2010 : 1008–1010 Locust St. 107: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, north of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis. For listings in Downtown St. Louis, see National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and Downtown West St. Louis.
Additionally, during the tenure of St. Louis mayor Vincent Schoemehl, various city streets were blocked to create more isolated cul-de-sacs during a time of population decline for the city; while many of these changes were eventually undone, these changes tended to persist more in wealthy communities such as Portland and Westmoreland Places. [3]
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen officially renamed the district on 24 March 1961. By 1962, property values in Gaslight Square had tripled. [1] [3] [4] [5] A 1962 episode of the American TV drama Route 66 titled "Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame" was set and filmed inside The Darkside jazz club.
Hull Property Group purchased the mall in 2018, [15] In March 2018, the St. Louis area's only American Girl store in the mall, closed. [16] [12] [14] On May 31, 2018, it was announced Sears would close, as a part of a plan to close 72 stores nationwide, also including the nearby South County Center location.
The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...
The history of St. Louis Hills, developed from 1930-50s, is relatively recent compared to the city's beginnings in 1763. The land which became St. Louis Hills dates back to deeds granted to pioneer French colonists Madame Ann Camp and Anton Reihle in 1768 by one founder of the Village of St. Louis, Pierre Laclède. At the time, the land ...