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Ground was broken for the Butterfly House in June 1997, and the Butterfly House opened its doors to the public on September 18, 1998. In 2000 the outdoor area known as the Butterfly Garden was dedicated. In July, 2001, the Butterfly House became a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2002, the "Emerson Lakeside Terrace" was opened.
Evelyn (Edison) Newman (July 25, 1920 – September 1, 2015) was an American philanthropist known for her fundraising and charitable contributions to the city of St. Louis, Missouri, including Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House at Faust County Park, Forest Park Forever, Forest Park Conservancy.
The district is in southwestern St. Louis County, including the cities of Ballwin, Chesterfield, Ellisville, Manchester, Town & Country, and Wildwood. [4] [2] The district is also home to Maryville University, Missouri Botanical Garden's Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Faust Park, and Castlewood State Park.
St. Louis City Hall was designed by architects Eckel & Mann, the winners of a national competition. [1] Construction began in 1891 and completed in 1898. Its profile and stylistic characteristics evoke the French Renaissance Hôtel de Ville, Paris , with an elaborate interior decorated with marble and gold trim.
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
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Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (St. Louis) Central Institute for the Deaf; Central Visual and Performing Arts High School; Century Building (St. Louis) Chase Park Plaza Hotel; City Hall (St. Louis) City Museum; Civil Courts Building; Clemens House-Columbia Brewery District; Cleveland Junior Naval Academy; Clyde C. Miller Career Academy ...
Proposition R (2012) was a charter amendment passed in November 2012 to reduce the number of city of St. Louis alderpersons from 28 to 14. It was slated to take place 10 years in the future (effective January 1, 2022) and was passed by city voters on November 6, 2012, with 61 percent voting in favor (60 percent was needed for passage). [2]