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The St. Louis Public Library is a municipal public library system in the city of St. Louis, ... By 1938 the collection included 900,000 items, and by 2014, 4.6 ...
Henry Overstolz (born Henry Clemens von Overstolz; July 4, 1821 – November 29, 1887) was the 24th mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, serving from 1876 to 1881.He was a direct descendant of the oldest patrician family of Cologne, Germany (the Cologne patricians). [1]
The statue Apotheosis of St. Louis by Charles Henry Niehaus, created in 1903. Plans to expand the museum, which existed in the 1995 Forest Park Master Plan and the museum's 2000 Strategic Plan, began in earnest in 2005, when the museum board selected the British architect Sir David Chipperfield to design the expansion; Michel Desvigne was selected as landscape architect.
The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. [1] Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a Special Collections library within the Thomas Jefferson ...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Forest Park: Art: Collection includes art from around the world and many eras Saint Louis University Museum of Art: Midtown: Art: Part of Saint Louis University, collections include modern art, Asian decorative arts, Jesuit and Catholic art and artifacts that reflect the frontier experience of the Jesuit missionaries
the university art collection, whose collection was lent to the City Art Museum until 1960, and reorganized in 2004 into the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum [6] and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, with simplified name, which remained part of the University; In 1905 Ives was replaced as director by alumnus and instructor Edmund H. Wuerpel.
This is a list of public art in St. Louis, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics.
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 ...