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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 "South" plant opened in 1959, while the "North" portion opened in 1966. The Saint Louis Factory was built to accommodate Chrysler's new Chrysler B platform allowing the company to build subcompact vehicles. Saint Louis North was the home of minivan production from 1987 through 1995, when it was converted to build the Dodge Ram pickup truck ...
The Metropoint Tower, otherwise known as 600 Interchange Tower, is a 20-story high rise office building located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States.Originally known as Shelard Tower upon its completion in 1975, [2] the tower is the tallest building within the 494/694 interstate beltway outside of Minneapolis or Saint Paul, Minnesota.
A jury found a St. Louis rapper not guilty of murder after the 19-year-old claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed the driver of the Jeep that was following him on his minibike.
The plant closed on August 7, 1986, its future essentially sealed when GM closed the Caprice/Impala assembly on August 1, 1980 and began developing a new factory, Wentzville Assembly — a then-state of the art, 3.7 million square foot plant on 569 acres approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of St. Louis, just off of I-70.
In 1933, Bernard Dickmann became Mayor of St. Louis and decided to build a new facility on a 17-acre site in Forest Park. The building cost about $117,000, with about 45% coming from Public Works Administration funds, and William C. E. Becker, then Chief Engineer of Bridges and Buildings for the city, was assigned to design the building.
St. Louis Place Park: 1850 Pontiac Square Park 1908 Strodtman Park 1924 Ray Leisure Park 1958 Tandy Park 1918 River Des Peres Extension 1954 Turner Playground 1937 River Des Peres Park: 1926 Unity Park 2004 Sister Marie Charles Park 1982 Vivian Astra Park 1921 Soulard Market Park 1908 W. C. Handy Park 1941 St. Louis Square Park 1882 Walnut Park ...
With the decline of railroads in the United States, in the 1950s the building was transitioned to hosting the fledgling daily newspaper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. As newspapers also declined and St. Louis became a single major daily newspaper town in the 1980s, the structure was eventually turned into an office and data center building.