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Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate. It continued to operate after the desegregation of city hospitals, and continued to serve the Black community of St. Louis until its closure in 1979.
The St. Louis television market includes the city itself, 14 counties in east-central Missouri, and 15 counties in southwestern Illinois. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In its Fall 2018 ranking of television markets by population, Arbitron ranked the St. Louis market 21st in the United States.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a major competing St. Louis daily newspaper, located one block away on the same street, closed in 1986; St. Louis Sun, a short-lived competing daily newspaper started in 1989; 100 Neediest Cases, an annual charitable giving campaign sponsored in part by the Post-Dispatch; Riverfront Times, the St. Louis weekly newspaper
Its name is due to its proximity to the highest point of the city, formerly named St. Louis Hill, which is outside the neighborhood's boundaries, a few blocks south, at the intersection of Arsenal Street and Sublette Avenue. The intersection borders Sublette Park, the former site of the Social Evil Hospital, where Josephine Baker was born. [2]
Firmin Desloge plaque. In February 1930, Saint Louis University received a $1 million bequest ($18,239,044 today [3]) from the estate of Firmin Vincent Desloge, [4] a member of the Desloge Family in America, who provided in his will, funds for a hospital to serve St. Louis University and to replace the old St. Mary's Hospital, both in St. Louis. [5]
The magazine started under the name Replay in 1969. Its president and publisher was Steve Apted, and its editor was Doris Lieberman. The home office was in the basement of the Cheshire Inn, a local hotel. [3] It was quickly renamed The St. LouisanOCLC 6462976, then in 1977 renamed to its current title of St. Louis Magazine OCLC 5130754.
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...
Deaconess Hospital was the name of several hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri. The Deaconess tradition began in 19th-century Europe when Theodor Fliedner of Kaiserswerth, Germany, established the first Deaconess Home and Hospital in 1836. The word deaconess means “one who is devoted to service”, being the feminine gender of the word deacon. [1]