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The building was a work of William Albert Hirsch of the St. Louis architectural firm Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson. [1] [2] The club, founded in 1870, was "considered the most exclusive social club among German-Americans in St. Louis". The club used a hall downtown until 1907 when it built a club house building on South Grand Avenue.
St. Louis, Missouri: Postal code: 63116, 63104, 63110, 63103, 63106, 63107, 63102: Nearest metro station: Grand: South end: Holly Hills Avenue in Holly Hills: Major junctions: Route 366 in Tower Grove South Route 30 in Tower Grove South I-44 in Compton Heights Route 100 in The Gate I-64 / US 40 in Grand Center Route D in Grand Center Route 115 ...
The Club Imperial was a nightclub at 6306-28 West Florissant Ave in St. Louis, Missouri. During the club's heyday in the 1950s through the 1960s, acts such as Ike & Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, and Bob Kuban and the In-Men performed at the Club Imperial. [1] [2]
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 ...
A few American gentlemen's clubs maintain separate "city" and "country" clubhouses, essentially functioning as both a traditional gentlemen's club in one location and a country club in another: the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee, [6] the New York Athletic Club in New York City, the Union League of Philadelphia ...
Gaslight Square (also known as Greenwich Corners) [1] was an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri active in the 1950s and 60s, covering an area of about three blocks at the intersection of Olive and Boyle, near the eastern part of the current Central West End and close to the current Grand Center Arts District.
It was built as Grand Central Theatre by the Skouras Brothers as a 1,750 theater for showing of motion pictures, unusual for the time. It cost $150,000. [1] The theater was the host location for the first St. Louis "talkie", Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. The theater was also the first St. Louis theater to show an all-color talking and singing ...
A once dilapidated movie palace, Powell Hall, 718 N. Grand Blvd. is the sumptuous, Neo-classical acoustically vibrant home of the St. Louis Symphony and another is a thriving live performance venue, (the Fox Theatre). Buildings designed for worship are performing arts centers (Sheldon Concert Hall and the Grandel Theatre).