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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure.
Montgomery Elevator Company was a vertical ... One of the most unusual Montgomery elevators in the world is the elevator tramway in the St. Louis Gateway Arch. [3 ...
The Wainwright building was commissioned by Ellis Wainwright, a St. Louis brewer.Wainwright needed office space to manage the St Louis Brewers Association. [7] It was the second major commission for a tall building won by the Adler & Sullivan firm, which had grown to international prominence after the creation of the ten-story Auditorium Building in Chicago (designed in 1886 and completed in ...
A large new community building has launched in CityVille that closely resembles the real world St. Louis Arch. It's called the Color Arch, and it's a long, narrow object that can now be built in ...
St. Louis skyline, seen from across the Mississippi River. One Metropolitan Square, pictured at night, designed by the architects Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum.. The skyline of St. Louis is home to some of the most architecturally significant buildings in the United States, from its eye catching Gateway Arch to its beautiful granite facade, copper roofed One Metropolitan Square.
A prime example of St. Louis Colonial Revival is located at 47 Portland Place. Much of St. Louis' working-class housing in the 1920s and 1930s were bungalows, which appear throughout south St. Louis. At the same time, the central corridor extending west from downtown saw an increase in low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings.
The memorial was developed largely through the efforts of St. Louis civic booster Luther Ely Smith who first pitched the idea in 1933, was the long-term chairman of the committee that selected the area and persuaded Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to make it a National Park Service unit after St. Louis passed a bond issue to begin building it and ...
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