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Field Trip: Cincinnati Music Hall

September 22, 2015by nicklemen Leave a comment

Last week Cincinnati Music Hall announced plans for a $125 million renovation beginning in 2016. The massive Cincinnati Music Hall was completed in 1878. The auditorium boasts over 3500 seats […]

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Downtown St. Louis, Field Trip, Lost, Preservation

A Tale of Two Founders: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and Louis Blanchette

September 8, 2015by nicklemen 7 Comments

Two Founders Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and Louis Blanchette, two minor yet notable figures in American history, spent the end of their lives as residents of St. Charles, Missouri. […]

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African American History, Memorials and Monuments, St. Charles

Forest Park’s Victorian Bridge

July 11, 2015by nicklemen Leave a comment

On July 4th of this year I was lucky to be able to walk to Art Hill from a friend’s Central West End apartment. The east side of Forest Park […]

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Central West End, Eames and Young, Forest Park, Great Divorce, North St. Louis, South St. Louis, St. Louis County, Streetcars

Welcome to St. Louis!

April 30, 2015by nicklemen Leave a comment

Welcome to St. Louis This is a page from a wonderful little book called Problems of St. Louis, Being a Description, From the City Planning Standpoint, of Past and Present […]

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From the Archives

From the Archives: Post-Dispatch November 14, 1897

March 31, 2015by nicklemen 1 Comment

A St. Louisan Describes His Sensations in an Opium Joint He Discovered in the Fashionable West End “It is easy to find an opium join [sic] in St. Louis. My friend […]

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911 North Tucker Boulevard and the Story of Stacker Lee

February 10, 2015by nicklemen 3 Comments

The night was clear and the moon was yellow, and the leaves came tumbling down… 911 North Tucker Boulevard My post today starts with a house – the row house […]

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Last One Standing, North St. Louis, Tucker Blvd

The Vanished Visitation Academy of Visitation Park

January 19, 2015by nicklemen 2 Comments

The Neighborhood Visitation Park is a very small neighborhood of less than a thousand persons on the North Side of the City of St. Louis. It takes its name from the […]

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Lost, Neighborhood Namesakes, North St. Louis
An Old Landmark Here

Marine Villa’s Lost Marine Hospital

December 5, 2014by nicklemen 4 Comments

The Neighborhood Marine Villa, which has been known by that name only since 1969, is a South St. Louis neighborhood of approximately 2700 persons bordered by Cherokee Street to the north, […]

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Lost, Marine Villa, Neighborhood Namesakes, South St. Louis

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