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Robert James Cassilly Jr. (November 9, 1949 – September 26, 2011) was an American sculptor, entrepreneur, and creative director based in St. Louis, Missouri.In 1997, Cassilly founded the idiosyncratic City Museum, which draws over 700,000 visitors a year [1] and is one of the city's leading tourist attractions.
A museum specimen of particular note was a fossil, the Hydrarchos or Zeuglodon, which the Complete Guide to the St. Louis Museum called "the greatest fossil in the world." [ 3 ] The Zeuglodon was constructed mainly from basilosaurus fossils discovered in 1848 in a field in Alabama.
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
1958: Engleman is suspected in the death of James Stanley Bullock, 27, a clerk for Union Electric Company of Missouri and part-time student [2] shot near the Saint Louis Art Museum. Edna Ruth Bullock (née Ball) and James Bullock were married on June 28, 1958, and had been married for five and half months on the date he was murdered.
Cementland, St. Louis, outdoor sculpture park, future uncertain since death of creator in 2011; Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, St. Louis, closed in 2008 [3] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999 [4] St. Louis Museum
Wainwright Tomb. After over 20 years in Paris, with health failing, Wainwright returned to St. Louis and died on November 6, 1924. He is buried in the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb in Bellefontaine Cemetery, commissioned by Wainwright after the death of his wife; [12] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 1970 and became a St. Louis Landmark in 1971. [13]
Louisa Maud Frederici Cody (May 27, 1844 – October 21, 1921) was the wife of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. She married on March 6, 1866, on her family farm in Arnold, Missouri, and remained in a rocky relationship for 51 years until Cody's death in 1917.
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.