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Oct 29, 2020 · St. Louis was called “first inland city on the globe” by journalist Horace Greeley, and Walt Whitman, William T. Sherman, and local boosters supported the idea of making it the nation’s new capitol, even if it meant moving the old one “brick-by-brick.” (168) By 1890, “The city had the largest train station, brewery, chemical plants ...
ST. LOUISSt. Louis, known as the Gateway city, is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Its location made it the natural center of economic and political activity for the region as well as the logical starting point for the western expansion of the United States beyond the Mississippi. St.
- Ice Cream Cones Reportedly Debuted in St. Louis.
- St. Louis Was Once A Major American Coffee Hub.
- St. Louis Had The Nation’S Last Pneumatic Tube System.
- A Jazz Age Ballroom Has Been Walled Off For Six decades.
- One of The World’S First Skyscrapers Was Built in St. Louis in The 1890s.
Wikimedia Commons// Public Domain The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair has few modern precedents. The city celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase with grand edifices, concourses, lagoons, and palaces. According to tradition, in the midst of all the hubbub, a concessionaire named Ernest A. Hamwi found himself selling small waffle-like pastri...
Back when the Mississippi River was the closest thing to an information superhighway, St. Louis was well-positioned to receive exotic shipments. In the 18th century, coffee arrived from French traders, and in the 19th century it came up from New Orleans. By the early 20th century, St. Louis was the largest inland distributor of coffee in the world,...
Tube delivery is now relegated to drive-through windows at banks and pharmacies. But in the 19th century, pneumatic mail dispatch was all the rage. New York City had the largest such system, at 55 miles. St. Louis’s tube network was the smallest, with only four miles, and it was the last such system built by a major American city. By the early 20th...
Built for the 1904 exposition, the Hotel Jefferson was extensively overhauled in the 1920s. Included in this remodel was an exquisite, two-story art deco ballroom with rippling balconies, a massive chandelier, and a 1200-person capacity dance floor. The space closed in the 1950s, and when the building reopened as affordable senior living two decade...
Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Wainwright Building wasn’t the tallest building in 1890s America (Chicago and New York had taller). But it was the first skyscraper to look the part, embracing its height with a sheer wall of windows instead of tiered floors or overhanging ledges. Built by a Chicago firm for a wealthy local brewer, the build...
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May 20, 2011 · J. Frederic Fausz, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, set out to explore the 250-year-old mystery of why and how French St. Louis was founded. The result is his new book, “Founding St. Louis: First City of the New West.” The book offers new insight into the roles people such as […]
May 18, 2021 · Years after St. Louis proposed destroying the area's historic buildings to construct a football stadium, the Near North Riverfront has firmly returned to being forgotten. When Richard Compton and Camille Dry chose the first plate of their famous Pictorial St. Louis, they didn’t pick the bustling Levee District, the center of commerce, or ...
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Jan 12, 2018 · The pre-Columbian settlement at Cahokia was the largest city in North America north of Mexico, with as many as 20,000 people living there at its peak.(Image credit: Painting by Lloyd K. Townsend ...
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In 1908 the City constructed the first free highway bridge across the Mississippi River and in 1909, St. Louis celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as a town. The City's population in 1910 climbed to 687,029, retaining the position of St. Louis as the fourth largest city in the United States.
