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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 ...
Gaslight Square (also known as Greenwich Corners) [1] was an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri active in the 1950s and 60s, covering an area of about three blocks at the intersection of Olive and Boyle, near the eastern part of the current Central West End and close to the current Grand Center Arts District.
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
Benton Park is a neighborhood in southside St. Louis, Missouri, just west of the Soulard neighborhood. The official boundaries of the area are Gravois Avenue on the north, Cherokee Street on the south, I-55 on the east, and Jefferson Avenue on the west. [2] Benton Park is unrelated to Benton Place, a private street located in Lafayette Square ...
The Hotel Majestic St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, United States (formerly known as the DeSoto Hotel and the Omni Majestic Hotel) is a restored 91-room historic hotel built in 1913–1914. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
1800 – St. Louis becomes part of French Louisiana. [3] 1804 St. Louis becomes part of U.S. territory per Louisiana Purchase. [3] Post Office established. [5] 1805 – St. Louis becomes capital of the U.S. Louisiana Territory. [3] [6] 1808 – Missouri Gazette newspaper begins publication. [7] 1809 Town incorporated. [1] Missouri Fur Company ...
Lafayette Square is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri, which is bounded on the north by Chouteau Avenue, on the south by Interstate 44, on the east by Truman Parkway, and on the west by South Jefferson Avenue. [2]
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II.Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.