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The cuisine of St. Louis is largely influenced by the city’s German, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, and Vietnamese immigrant population and African Americans who migrated from the Southern United States. [1] The cuisine is prevalent in St. Louis, and extends to other areas in Missouri and Illinois.
The Washington Avenue Historic District is located in Downtown West, St. Louis, Missouri along Washington Avenue, and bounded by Delmar Boulevard to the north, Locust Street to the south, 8th Street on the east, and 18th Street on the west. The buildings date from the late 19th century to the early 1920s.
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.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II.Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.
In 1953, St. Louis issued bonds that financed the completion of the St. Louis Gateway Mall project and several new high-rise housing projects. [215] The most famous and largest was Pruitt–Igoe , which opened in 1954 on the northwest edge of downtown and included 33 eleven-story buildings with nearly 3,000 units.
The Eads Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River connecting the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.It is located on the St. Louis riverfront between Laclede's Landing to the north, and the grounds of the Gateway Arch to the south.
The bridge was 30 feet wide and provided an alternate route for the heavily congested old St. Charles Bridge that carried U.S. Highway 40 through St. Charles, Missouri into St. Louis. [7] Initially serving two lanes of travel, in the 1950s, it was restriped with a reversible lane controlled by signals. The 1989 bridge (left) alongside the ...