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Downtown

Posts about downtown St. Louis

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Union Station, Newly Opened

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Chris Naffziger

It’s hard to imagine Union Station as a new building, or to think of Market Street out front as a much narrower thoroughfare than it is today, but both were once true. The train shed was also full carriages, though… Continue Reading →

Downtown Mill Creek, Rehabilitation, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Train Stations, Union Station
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Old Post Office, Revisited

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Chris Naffziger

I realized recently I really hadn’t taken any good photographs of the Old Post Office ever, so I took a trip down late in the afternoon on a Saturday. The light was a little weird, but they turned out OK.… Continue Reading →

Downtown Historic Buildings, Old Post Office, Old Post Office Square, Rehabilitation, Second Empire
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Former Stouffer’s Riverfront Inn

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Chris Naffziger

They sure had all sorts of great ideas in the 1960s about how they were going to revitalize downtown, and pretty much none of them worked. They’re either demolished, abandoned, bought out in corporate mergers or forgotten. Just look at… Continue Reading →

Downtown Abandoned Buildings, Hotels, Modernism, Restaurants, Skyscrapers
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The Old Cathedral, Interior

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Chris Naffziger

I already discussed the copy of the Velázquez two days ago, so we’re going to go around the church and look at some of the other works of art in the newly refurbished interior of the Old Cathedral. While the… Continue Reading →

Downtown Churches, Gateway Arch National Park, Gateway Mall, Greek Revival, Old Cathedral, Paintings, Rehabilitation, Sculpture, The Levee
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The Old Cathedral, Exterior

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Chris Naffziger

I’m glad they didn’t tear down or move the Old Cathedral, but I wish they wouldn’t have left it so stranded in the middle of an interstate on one side, and an incongruous park on the other. Here are various… Continue Reading →

Downtown Churches, Gateway Arch National Park, Gateway Mall, Greek Revival, Old Cathedral, Rehabilitation, The Levee
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The Old Cathedral, Eighty Years Later

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Chris Naffziger

Right on the eve of the demolition of the Levee for the new Gateway Arch grounds the Historic American Buildings Survey photographed the Old Cathedral’s exterior and interior. By then the Old Cathedral was surrounded by warehouses, and very few… Continue Reading →

Downtown Churches, Demolition, Gateway Arch National Park, Greek Revival, Old Cathedral, The Levee
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From the Vault: Union Station Grand Hall, February 2014

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Back in February of 2014, the Grand Hall of Union Station was just starting to undergo its massive renovation into its current incarnation. I snapped some pictures of the public areas. It turns out that some of the original decorative… Continue Reading →

Downtown Hotels, Rehabilitation, Romanesque Revival, Train Stations, Union Station
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LaSalle Building Rehabilitated

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

The renovation of the historic LaSalle Building is now complete, and it has opened as a Hotel Indigo. I took a peek inside a couple of weeks ago and it is really beautiful inside and out. As I had mentioned… Continue Reading →

Downtown Chicago School, Hotels, Office Buildings, Redevelopment, Rehabilitation, Skyscrapers
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The End of MO-755

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Update: The on-ramp above has been permanently removed. The Ewing Avenue Bridge was demolished the last week of February 2021 for replacement. Readers will probably have two reactions to the discussion of the closure of the five entrances and exits… Continue Reading →

Central, Downtown Demolition, Gateway Mall, Interstates, Midtown, Redevelopment, Union Station
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Strange Brew, Revisited

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

Way back in August of 2007, when this website was only a couple of months old, I featured the old bank building on Broadway and Olive. It was a moribund shoe store back then, and now it’s a very successful… Continue Reading →

Downtown Banks, Beaux-Arts, Rehabilitation

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