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Title: Plaza Apartments - Picnic line
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-26
Description: Picnic on the patio between apartments at Plaza Apartments. Caption: "group eating picnic lunch." Pictured: "Mrs. Roma Barker, Miss Amanda Andersen, Miss Carol Pigg, Miss Nancy Gass, Miss Wilma Anderson, Miss Barbara Lesich, Mrs. Romana Schmiedes."

Title: Plaza Apartments Picnic
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-26
Description: Picnic on the patio between apartments at Plaza Apartments. Caption: "Chow line for haburgers - hot dogs - potatoe salad etc." Pictured: "Mr. and Mrs. Hayden McRoberts, Mrs. Sandi Miller, and others in line."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Rented like hotel suites
Date: 1963-07-17, 1963-07-17
Description: Caption: "Plaza Square Apts., rented like hotel suites."

Title: St. Louis de Ville - Poolside
Date: 1963-07-01, 1963-07-05
Description: "Guests of the St. Louis de Ville Motor Hotel, 4483 Lindell bl., relax at the sunken swimming plaza. The $5,000,000 motor hotel opened for business Monday. The de Ville is owned by Melvin and Harold Dubinsky, St. Louis real estate investors, and Paul Kapelow, a New Orleans investor and construction magnate.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Exterior street view
Date: 1963-07-05, 1963-07-07
Description: 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."

Title: Plaza Apartment - Viewed from rooftop
Date: 1967-07-30, 1967-07-30
Description: The Plaza Apartments buildings as seen from the top of an adjacent building.

Title: Plaza Apartments Preview
Date: 1960-01-28, 1960-01-29
Description: "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.

Title: Plaza Apartments - #10 Plaza Square
Date: 1961-11, 1961-11
Description: "#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."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Federal building
Date: 1960-04, 1960-04
Description: Image of Plaza Square Apartments advertisement (not shown) in front of a new federal building that is nearing completion near the apartment complex.

Title: Plaza Apartments Patio Party
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-27
Description: 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."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Preview, lower picture
Date: 1960-01-28, 1960-01-29
Description: "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.

Title: Plaza Apartments - At breakfast
Date: 1960-06-22, 1960-06-26
Description: Captioned on back: "Breakfast can be leisurely for Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Laskwitz, now that they live at 30 Plaza Square. Instead of a 17-mile drive from Florissant, he can now walk to work in five minutes."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Progress continues
Date: 1959-07-26, 1959-07-26
Description: "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."

Title: Plaza Apartments - New federal building
Date: 1960-04, 1960-04
Description: Image of Plaza Square Apartments advertisement in front of a new federal building that is nearing completion adjacent to the apartment complex.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Viewed from southeast
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: "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."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Balconies
Date: 1906-06-22, 1960-06-26
Description: "Downtown equivalent of the front porch is available to the Plaza Square residents in the form of balconies. Here Mrs. Roger Fox, 20 Plaza Square, with dog Sheba, shows a visitor the view from her ninth-floor apartment."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Viewed to northwest
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: "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).

Title: Plaza Apartments - New residents
Date: 1960-01-29, 1960-01-31
Description: "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."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Side view of building
Date: 1962-10-07, 1962-10-07
Description: A side view of a Plaza Apartments building. The project became the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Hoisting engineers strike
Date: 1960-05-02, 1960-05-02
Description: 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."

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