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Laclede's Landing (/ l ə ˌ k l iː d z-/), colloquially "the Landing", is a small urban historic district in St. Louis, Missouri.It marks the northern part of the original settlement founded by the Frenchman Pierre Laclède, whose landing on the riverside the placename commemorates. [2]
Laclede's Landing station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [2] This elevated station is located in downtown St. Louis near Laclede's Landing. The Gateway Arch seen from Laclede's Landing. The station is known for its historic brickwork that frames the Gateway Arch from the platform level. [3]
The casino was part of Pinnacle's two-casino Lumiere Place complex at Laclede's Landing (although Pinnacle in 2008 was reported to be considering moving it north to the Chain of Rocks Bridge). The 73,500 sq ft (6,830 m 2) casino featured 756 slots and twenty table games. On June 24, 2010 the President Casino closed for good.
The company was founded in 1991 by Pittsburgh millionaire John E. Connelly, who owned the Gateway Clipper Fleet and SS Admiral.Its riverboat casino The President in Davenport, Iowa, which opened in April 1991, was one of the first modern riverboat casinos in the Midwest and South after they started becoming legal.
Mississippi Nights was a music club in St. Louis, Missouri.It opened on October 11, 1976 [2] and was located at 914 N 1st Street, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, four blocks north of the Gateway Arch in Laclede's Landing.
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 the south.
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A prime example of St. Louis Colonial Revival is located at 47 Portland Place. Much of St. Louis' working-class housing in the 1920s and 1930s were bungalows, which appear throughout south St. Louis. At the same time, the central corridor extending west from downtown saw an increase in low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings.