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For example, Downtown St. Louis is generally thought to include the St. Louis Union Station and Enterprise Center, even though Downtown technically ends at Tucker Avenue (12th Street). Additionally, the Fox Theatre and Powell Symphony Hall are popularly considered a part of Midtown St. Louis even though they are in Grand Center.
Among the largest municipal parks is Forest Park, which is 1,293 acres (5.2 km 2) and is located in the city of St. Louis, although both Greensfelder County Park and Creve Coeur Park in St. Louis County are larger, at 1,646 and 2,114 acres (6.7 and 8.6 km 2) respectively. St.
Citygarden is an urban park and sculpture garden in St. Louis, Missouri owned by the City of St. Louis but maintained by the Gateway Foundation. [1] It is located between Eighth, Tenth, Market, and Chestnut streets, [2] in the city's "Gateway Mall" area.
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 ...
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
The 564-acre park includes forest, prairie, and riparian environments. A creek in the Meramec River watershed runs north to south through the park, feeding a fishing pond at the park's southern end. The park has picnic shelters, public restrooms, a playground, the Tails and Trails Dog Park, and outdoor tennis courts.
Tilles Park is an urban park, owned and operated by St. Louis County, Missouri, in the western St. Louis suburb of Ladue. The park's full original name is the Rosalie Tilles Memorial Park, in dedication to the mother of park founder Cap Tilles. The park is located at Litzsinger Road and McKnight Road.
The park was named after Father Pere Marquette in 1915 [6] and covers 17 acres (6.9 ha). [6] Father Pere Marquette (a Jesuit priest) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to explore and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. [6] The park is on the site of the House of Refuge orphanage. [7]