Wow, what a great first night living in St. Louis.
Tag: Old Post Office Square
Don’t Get Me Started…
Update: The Roberts Tower sat empty for years, but now houses apartments; the plaza is under-utilized on most days. It would have been so easy to build the Ninth Street Garage north of the Old Post Office and save the Century Building. Heck, what is most annoying is that people would probably be moving into…
Downtown Doorways
Not enough attention is paid to the entries into buildings nowadays, in my opinion. Below is the door to the Paul Brown Building. Below is the door to the Southwestern Bell Building. Below is a building’s door on the east side of Old Post Office Square, which is an excellent example of Classically inspired architecture….
Laclede Gas Building
The large black Modernist skyscraper in this picture is the Laclede Gas Building. While it dates to several decades after the building of the historic skyscrapers in its midst, I have to admit that the building sort of fits wells with the older buildings. Ironically, someday the Laclede Gas Building will be an historic structure,…
An Almost Unforgivable Error
Update: The parking garage is now complete, and the Syndicate Trust has been renovated into condominiums. The Old Post Office Square in downtown St. Louis was remarkable for its near perfect state of preservation on three of its four sides. So the logical action for St. Louis to take would be to destroy one of…
The Old Post Office from the Renaissance Grand Garage
Update: The parking lot in the foreground has been replaced with a plaza; the hotel is now a Marriott.