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Arsenal Street, Benton Park

Posted by Chris Naffziger on

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Update: See more of Arsenal in Benton Park from May of 2020.

I really think that Benton Park has some of the best architecture in the city of St. Louis, and its grand Second Empire homes show the beauty of the decades after the Civil War.

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See this stretch back in 1977 in this historic photo.

Susan Mattison. Landscape-oriented view of residences on the 2200 block of Arsenal Street on the left and Benton Park on the right. The intersection with Indiana Avenue is in view. 1977. Benton Park District Slide Collection. St. Louis Central Library, 099

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