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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]
The national park consists of the Gateway Arch, a steel catenary arch that has become the definitive icon of St. Louis; a park along the Mississippi River on the site of the earliest buildings of the city; the Old Courthouse, a former state and federal courthouse where the Dred Scott case originated; and the 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2) museum at ...
Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park is a park on the east side of the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois, directly across from the Gateway Arch and the city of St. Louis, Missouri. For 29 years, its major feature was the Gateway Geyser, a fountain that lifted water up to 630 feet (192 m), the same height as the Arch.
Both the arch and Gateway Arch National Park commemorate the early pioneers of America’s westward expansion. St. St. Louis itself is known as the Gateway to the West because it was a starting ...
St. Louis’ Gateway Arch is part of a nearly 91-acre national park that pays tribute to American history. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
Officials have dedicated renovations on the grounds of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The national monument to westward expansion has undergone a $380 million facelift. (July 3)
Monument to the Dream is a 1967 American short documentary film about the Gateway Arch National Park directed by Charles Guggenheim and narrated by Paul Richards. At the time of the film's production, the park was known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [1] [2]
The southern half of the Downtown St. Louis skyline behind the Gateway Arch (center.) Then into the 1940s and 1950s, a certain subgenre of St. Louis modernism emerged, with the locally important Harris Armstrong , and a series of daring modern civic landmarks like Gyo Obata 's Planetarium , the geodesic-dome Climatron , and the main terminal ...