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Title: Illumination Scene On 12th Street
Date: 1963-05-19, 1963-05-19
Description: Erected for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, this archway was illuminated by gas and electricity. In the background is the City Hall being built in old Washington Park.

Title: The Roe Building
Date: 1966-09-11, 1966-09-11
Description: Located at Broadway and Pine, this 1886 edifice, a sketch of which Boehl copied, housed Browning, King store. Two hotels have since occupied building.

Title: The Four Courts Building
Date: 1962-09-09, 1962-09-09
Description: The old Four Courts Building at Twelfth street and Clark avenue, which housed Police Headquarters, the Morgue, City Jail and the criminal and police courts.

Title: Old Jefferson Club Building
Date: 1962-05-27, 1962-05-27
Description: Front view of the old Jefferson Club building, southwest corner of Grand boulevard and Pine street, as it looks today, vacant, plastered with advertising posters.

Title: The Singer Building
Date: 1966-10-02, 1966-10-02
Description: The ornate Singer Building, Broadway and Locust, was downtown's pride during the Rutherford B. Hayes administration.

Title: Bellevue Garden
Date: 1961-11-19, 1961-11-19
Description: All that is left of the Bellevue Garden, and this soon will be gone.

Title: The Grand Tower Block Building
Date: 1965-12-12, 1965-12-12
Description: The Grand Tower Block Building, on northeast corner of Fourth and Market, across from Court House, was built in 1876 by Dr. J. H. McLean, probably St. Louis' most colorful figure.

Title: Revolving Globe of 3000 Electric Light Bulbs
Date: 1962-02-18, 1962-02-18
Description: One of the features of the streets illuminations in 1892, called the Columbian year, was this globe, Broadway between Olive and Locust, outlining the continents of the world with the then new electric lights.

Title: Old Landmark of North Saint Louis
Date: 1963-02-24, 1963-02-24
Description: This old landmark of North St. Louis at 3900 Natural Bridge avenue, once a saloon which did a flourishing business when the Cardinals played at the old Robinson Field, soon is to be torn down, a wrecking permit having been Anheuser-Busch, Inc., owners of the building, to raze it.

Title: The Republic Building
Date: 1965-03-21, 1965-03-21
Description: When this building was completed on the southeast corner of Third and Chestnut in 1873, it was called "one of the largest and finest newspaper establishments in the United States and, in fact, in the world."

Title: City's First Court House
Date: 1960-11-20, 1960-11-20
Description: Tradition claims this structure, erected at Third and Plum in the 1770s, to be St. Louis' first Court House under United States rule after 1804.

Title: Palace Stables
Date: 1969-01-12, 1969-01-12
Description: Photo shows Palace Stables of 1880s at 2938 Olive. Most stables ignored threat of the horseless carriage, which periodicals predicted would cause curvature of the spine.

Title: Steam Flour Mill
Date: 1960-07-17, 1960-07-17
Description: This picture of an early type steam flour mill, which residents called the old Union steam mill, was taken at the foot of Mullanphy shortly after Boehl was mustered out of the Union Army following the Civil War.

Title: The Old United States Customs House and Post Office
Date: 1966-01-30, 1966-01-30
Description: The six-pillared building at 216 North Third was erected two years before the Civil War.

Title: At Dedication of New Blue Cross Building
Date: 1962-10-01, 1962-10-01
Description: John Fox (second from left), chairman of the board of the St.Louis Blue Cross plan, presents a plaque to Howard F. Baer, chairman of the building committee.

Title: Blue Cross Member Service Headquarters
Date: 1962-05-29, 1962-05-29
Description: Being readied to take its place as the newest addition to the Plaza Redevelopment Area downtown is the $2,000,000 Blue Cross Building on the south side of Olive street from Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets.

Title: A.D. Brown Building
Date: 1965, 1965
Description: Image of the A.D. Brown Building located at 12th and Washington.

Title: Agent Will Meet Residents Demanding Building Repair
Date: 1966-08-08, 1966-08-08
Description: At the apartment building at 4425 Delmar ave.,there are holes in the kitchen floor on 5" in diameter and a definite hazard and the other 3" in diameter.

Title: Building Missing Bricks
Date: 1969, 1969
Description: A whole section of brick is missing from this home at 2405-07 Cass avenue which has been condemned by the city as being structurally unsafe and dangerous.

Title: Apartment Building Needs Repair
Date: 1966-08-06, 1966-08-06
Description: At apartment building at 4425 Delmar ave., the ceiling and wall are eroding.

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