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2. Gateway Arch - Wikipedia

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   The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure. Some sources consider it the tallest human-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. [6]

3. Gateway Arch National Park - Wikipedia

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   It is the smallest national park in the United States at 91 acres (37 ha), less than 2% the size of the next-smallest, Hot Springs National Park. The immediate surroundings of the Gateway Arch were initially designated the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial by secretarial order on December 21, 1935. The Gateway Arch was completed on October ...

4. Iconography of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   The Gateway Arch is the strongest symbol of St. Louis, but was built itself as memorial to the already present concept of the city as the Gateway to the West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from the St. Louis area. It was the starting point for many on their journeys along the Oregon and Santa Fe trails.

5. Old Courthouse (St. Louis) - Wikipedia

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   Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. The Old St. Louis County Courthouse was built as a combination federal and state courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Missouri's tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894, it is now part of Gateway Arch National Park and operated by the National Park Service for historical exhibits and events.

6. St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   The Gateway Arch anchors downtown St. Louis and a historic center that includes: the Federal courthouse where the Dred Scott case was first argued, an expanded public library, major churches and businesses, and retail. An increasing downtown residential population has taken to adapted office buildings and other historic structures.

7. File:Gateway Arch - St. Louis - Missouri (17275578342).jpg

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   The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis in the U.S. state of Missouri. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of an inverted, weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest monument in the Western Hemisphere, and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Built as a monument to the westward ...

8. Eads Bridge - Wikipedia

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   October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. January 29, 1964 [ 4 ] Location. 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 ...

9. List of tallest buildings in St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   St. Louis skyline, seen from across the Mississippi River. One Metropolitan Square, pictured at night, designed by the architects Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum.. The skyline of St. Louis is home to some of the most architecturally significant buildings in the United States, from its eye catching Gateway Arch to its beautiful granite facade, copper roofed One Metropolitan Square.