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F. W. Woolworth Building (San Antonio) San Antonio, Texas: 1921 [3] Famous for having peacefully desegregated its lunch counter alongside six others local stores of San Antonio on march 16 1960. [3] Will become part of the Alamo Mission historic site. [4] F. W. Woolworth Building (Renton, Washington) Renton, Washington
As of 2020, the vast majority of St. Louis Park's more than 50,000 residents were those between the ages of 25 and 34, according to Minnesota Compass, a division of St. Paul-based Wilder Research.
The Jones Store (Kansas City), absorbed by May Department Stores 1998, sold to Macy's chain 2006; The Paris (Kansas City) Kmart (St. Louis) Newman's , acquired by parent company of Heer's of Springfield in the early 1980s, closed in 1995; Scruggs Vandervoort & Barney , closed in 1967; Stix, Baer, Fuller (St. Louis), acquired by Dillard's in 1983
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.
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.
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
There were as many as 84 A&P stores in the city, 20 being supermarkets and the others being cash and carry stores; this building is one of the last surviving of these, and it was among those which kept operating up until A&P entirely left the city in 1979–1980. [2]: 18 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
Francis Park is located between Eichelberger Street, Nottingham Avenue, Donovan Avenue and Tamm Avenue. [ 1 ] The park was named for David Rowland Francis (1850-1927), who had been the President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition , governor of Missouri and mayor of St. Louis (1885-1889), who donated 60 acres of land for the park as a gift to ...