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For example, Downtown St. Louis is generally thought to include the St. Louis Union Station and Enterprise Center, even though Downtown technically ends at Tucker Avenue (12th Street). Additionally, the Fox Theatre and Powell Symphony Hall are popularly considered a part of Midtown St. Louis even though they are in Grand Center.
The history of skyscrapers in St. Louis began with the 1850s construction of Barnum's City Hotel, a six-story building designed by architect George I. Barnett. [3] Until the 1890s, no building in St. Louis rose over eight stories, but construction in the city rose during that decade owing to the development of elevators and the use of steel frames. [4]
St. Louis Art Museum The Gateway Arch The Climatron The Jewel Box The City Museum The Magic House Mcdonnell Planetarium Standard J-1 at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum A Burlington Zephyr and a Frisco 2-10-0 on display at the Museum of Transportation 1904 World's Fair Flight Cage at the St. Louis Zoo Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
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In 1947, St. Louis planners proposed to replace DeSoto-Carr, a run-down neighborhood with many black residents, with new two- and three-story residential blocks and a public park. [14] The plan did not materialize; instead, Democratic mayor Joseph Darst , elected in 1949, and Republican state leaders favored clearing the slums and replacing ...
The Grand Center Arts District is located in the Midtown St. Louis Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) north of the Saint Louis University campus. Referred to colloquially as Grand Center, the neighborhood's formal name is Covenant Blu Grand Center. [2] The neighborhood's is a member of the Global Cultural Districts ...
Convention Center station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [2] This subway station is located beneath the intersection of 6th Street and Washington Avenue in St. Louis' Central Business District .
The Center for Global Citizenship (CGC), previously known as the Bauman–Eberhardt Center and the West Pine Gym, is a multi-purpose cultural center in St. Louis, Missouri. The building initially opened in 1920 as an arena , and was used for this purpose by Saint Louis University until Chaifetz Arena finished construction in 2008.