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View of Mark Twain/I-70 Industrial as seen from Bircher Boulevard. I-70 is visible as well. In 2020 Mark Twain/I-70 Industrial's racial makeup was 92.5% Black, 3.7% White, 0.2% Asian, 0.1% American Indian, 3.0% Two or More Races, and 0.6% Some Other Race. 1.3% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino origin.
Lucas Avenue Industrial Historic District is an American historic district bounded by Washington, Delmar, 20th & 21 Streets, St. Louis, Missouri. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. A boundary increase, roughly bounded by Locust St., Delmar, and 19th and 20th Sts. was added in 2007.
Charles Leiper Grigg originally founded the 7 Up company and died in 1940 after which his son, Hamblett Charles Grigg, succeeded him. The company had been renting space in the Shell Building since 1943 but the younger Grigg commissioned Hugo K. Graf to design a prominent headquarters in St. Louis to raise the profile of what was then the third largest soft drink company.
Russell Kraus sold the house in 2001 to a non-profit organization formed for the specific purpose of saving it. The title was subsequently transferred to the St. Louis County Parks and Recreation Department, which maintains the 10.5-acre (42,000 m 2) grounds as Ebsworth Park. The house and park are open to the public by appointment only.
The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company (MLM) was a large timber corporation with headquarters and primary operations in southeast Missouri.The company was formed by Pennsylvania lumbermen who were eager to exploit the untapped timber resources of the Missouri Ozarks to supply lumber, primarily used in construction, to meet the demand of U.S. westward expansion.
The global headquarters for Novus International is located in St. Louis, Missouri. The building was completed in 2009 in a design-and-build partnership with Clayco, [1] resulting in a 90,000 square foot complex with a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification (a green building certification program). [2]
In 1961, fifteen independent suppliers of soft goods to Sears, Roebuck and Co were merged to form Kellwood Company. Taking its name from two former Sears' executives, Charles H. Kellstadt and Robert E. Wood, The first officers included Maurice Perlstein, president and treasurer; Fred W. Wenzel, vice president; Stanley M. Guthunz, vice president; Ovide de St. Aubin, Jr., vice president; and ...
Brothers Henry Dunn Wickes and Edward Noyes Wickes moved to Flint, Michigan, from New York in 1854, becoming involved in the area's lumber industry.The brothers, along with partner H.W. Wood, later established Genesee Iron Works, a foundry and machine shop; after buying out Wood, the business was renamed Wickes Bros. Iron Works and moved to Saginaw, Michigan, to be closer to a source of pig iron.