Above: Bob Reuter’s boyhood home in the Fairgrounds neighborhood. I always go back and take a mental inventory of where I was when a friend of mine passes away. What was going on, and did I feel anything different? I know exactly where I was when Bob Reuter tragically fell to his death in an…
Tag: Book Reviews
Maritz and Young Lecture This Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 7:00 PM, Missouri History Museum
Update: This event has already passed. I was pleasantly surprised to receive a review copy of the Missouri History Museum’s publication, The Architecture of Maritz and Young: Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis, by Kevin Amsler and L. John Schott. If you’ve never heard of the firm of Maritz and Young, you’ll be interested to…
New Book on St. Louis Architecture
Update: As of September 2015, I can find no evidence of this book existing anymore. Please contact me if you know where this book can be purchased. The links above are dead. Disappearing St. Louis is a book presenting 55 color images captured over a three-year period by photographer Amy Fontinelle. They depict the poor…