Caption: "View from Market at 17th showing #30 Plaza Square in left foreground, with #20 at right, behind which is St. John the Apostle Catholic Church. Patio-court with striking landscaping is between #30 and #20 Plaza Square. Foreground area at left and right is where new city park is being landscaped."
"Alderman John Roddy (left) chats with John T. Dickmann, general manager of the Plaza Square Apartments, during a preview of 16 furnished display apartments, which will be open to the public at noon Friday. They are seated in the living room of an apartment which includes a separate bedroom and kitchen. Mrs. Carole Poehner (below) of the Dolan Company, which is handling rentals, sits in the living room of a similar unit furnished in Early American style.
"#10 Plaza Square, of Plaza Square Apartments, viewed to west from Plaza area just west of Soldier's Memorial. Chestnut and Market Streets are at left, Pine Street at right."
Two original captions: "Plaza Square Patio Party: Enjoying a get-acquainted party are some of the more than 650 residents of Plaza Square, who attended a picnic dinner served in the two patio courts between the apartment buildings on either side of the Pine street between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. Also attending the patio party Tuesday night were officers of the Urban Redevelopment Corporation, which raised funds to creat the $15,000,000 development." "View of patio-court between #30 and #20 Plaza Square, looking east to #20, with Centenary Methodist Church (Pine St.) at left. Surface parking at either side of patio-court, which features lily pond in center and lattice-covered resting area."
"Alderman John Roddy (left) chats with John T. Dickmann, general manager of the Plaza Square Apartments, during a preview of 16 furnished display apartments, which will be open to the public at noon Friday. They are seated in the living room of an apartment which includes a separate bedroom and kitchen. Mrs. Carole Poehner (below) of the Dolan Company, which is handling rentals, sits in the living room of a similar unit furnished in Early American style.
"Plaza progress continues as work goes rapidly ahead on 13-story apartment buildings being erected in the area bounded by Fifteenth, Chestnut, Seventeenth, and Olive streets. This view, looking north from Sixteenth and Market streets, shows two of the six buildings in the development along with the Cenetary Methodist Church and St. John's Basilica, which will serve residents when the 1090 units are ready for occupancy, probably in June of 1961."
"Plaza Square Apartments viewed to southeast from 17th Street (foreground, left to right) where it is intersected by Pine. #30 Plaza Square (right) contains model display apartments with entrance at far right at 17th and Chestnut."
"Plaza Square Apartments viewed to northwest from corner of Chestnut Street (left foreground) and 15th Street (right). St. John's Catholic Church is located between #20 Plaza Square and #10 (center foreground).
"Admiring the view from one of the Plaza apartment balconies are David Zerker, a Terminal Railroad employee, and his fiance, Mary Jo Mills, a student at Marquette University. They plan to move into Plaza Square after their marriage in June."
Caption: "Workmen sitting idle in the 1600 block of Pine because of strike of hoisting engineers of local 513 which has halted work on Plaza Apartments."
"For rent sign approved by the Municipal Art Commission has been placed on the Chestnut street side of one of the buildings in the Plaza Square apartment development between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. Three of the six buildings in the project have been completed and about a third of the 1090 apartments have been rented, officials reported."
"One of the several completed Plaza Square apartment buildings skirting the downtown area of St. Louis. The view is toward the Northeast, showing in the background the Warwick Hotel at the left and the Central Public Library and the Shell office building at the right."
Cutting the ribbon at the dedication of the Alpha Garden Apartments, a middle income housing development at Hodiamont and Etzel avenues sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the oldest negro fraternities in the country, is Rudolph Walker (right center), president of the local Alpha unit, Epsilon Lambda Chapter. Also present were: (from left) Rev. John Doggett of Union Memorial Church; Ronald Williams, and his family; and attorney Morris M. Hatchett, chairman of the board of the Alpha House of St. Louis Inc.
NEW APARTMENTS IN URBAN RENEWAL AREA Alpha Garden Apartments at Hodiamont and Etzel avenues, the first completed residential redevelopment project in the West End Urban Renewal Area, was dedicated Sunday.
"View of patio-court between No. 30 and No. 20 Plaza Square, looks east to No. 20, with roof of Kiel Auditorium and new Federal Building under construction at right. There is surface parking on either side of the patio-court, which features a lily pond in the center and lattice shaded benches."
The Collier Building sits at the intersection of Washington Avenue and 4th Street in downtown St. Louis. Signs along the ground level advertise a clothing mart, tobacco shop, and Goldie's Bar & Buffet. A temporary sign on the corner of the building reads "Sold for Redevelopment, Mercantile Trust Company."