Mercantile Bank and the Ghost of the Ambassador
A New Home for Mercantile Bank In 1973 Mercantile Bank had 1500 employees scattered among 12 buildings around downtown St. Louis. The company thought that consolidating operations into one building […]
Tag Archives: Lost
Before and After in McKinley Heights
A series of loud banging sounds woke me up. I thought it was the trash truck. When I go to work I usually drive the same way out of my […]
Monday Meditation: 1896 St. Louis Streetcar Map
This is a map showing the streetcar routes that existed in St. Louis in 1896. It’s pretty. It’s interesting to contemplate the vitality and upward trajectory that this map represents, […]
Field Trip: Cincinnati Music Hall
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 […]
Welcome to St. Louis!
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 […]
The Vanished Visitation Academy of Visitation Park
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 […]
Marine Villa’s Lost Marine Hospital
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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