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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 ...
Lafayette Square Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Hickory and 18th Sts., Jefferson and Lafayette Aves. in St. Louis, Missouri.Buildings in the district include a department store, a single dwelling, a public park, and a specialty store.
Apotheosis of St. Louis is a statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, located in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.Part of the iconography of St. Louis, the statue was the principal symbol of the city between its erection in 1906 and the construction of the Gateway Arch in the mid-1960s.
Saint Louis Galleria; St. Louis Union Station; Saint Louis University Museum of Art; St. Mary of Victories Church; St. Mary's Institute of O'Fallon; St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (St. Louis, Missouri) Samuel Cupples House; Saint Louis Science Center; Security Building (St. Louis, Missouri) The Sheldon; Shrine of St. Joseph, St. Louis; Soldiers ...
1958 – Landmarks Association of St. Louis established. 1959 – St. Louis sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement. [59] 1960 Population: 750,026. [41] Sister city relationship established with Stuttgart, Germany. [60] The National Football League's Chicago Cardinals relocate to St. Louis. They will remain through 1987.
Basilica of St. Louis, King of France (a.k.a. Old Cathedral) Several examples of religious structures are extant from the pre-Civil War period, and most reflect the common residential styles of the time. Among the earliest is the Basilica of St. Louis, King of France (locally referred to as the Old Cathedral). The Basilica was built between ...
Inside the New Louis Vuitton Restaurant in N.Y.C. Louis Vuitton. Last week, Louis Vuitton unveiled a massive new store in New York, marking the occasion with an appropriately massive party ...
He continued donating money to improve the park. [49] Desloge also donated land for Sunset Park in north St. Louis County on the Missouri River; and sold to St. Louis County the 2,300-acre Pelican Island in the middle of the Missouri River (for just $91 an acre [50]) as a nature preserve. [51]