It’s maybe not the most consequential demolition in St. Louis history, but it is one that is worth documenting, as it represents the passing of a major civic building in the city. For generations, two large incinerators burned garbage in St. Louis (I don’t know what’s done with our garbage now), one up north on Hall Street, and one down on the desolate South Riverfront. It is of interest because it shows the construction of smokestacks in the mid-Twentieth Century. Baltimore actually generates electric with its incinerator.